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Tonight I have just arrived at my sister's house.I grabbed the latest Femina magazine and when I opened page 111 there was a writing contest.I never joined it because I was afraid if I didn't win.Did you feel the same?I don't have high confidence.It's true I've published once but it was with other writers.

I am not good at writing descriptive story even though I like detective or mystery genre.

Do you know what are most popular genres for women magazine?Thank you for your answers and I will wait f

G    I    V     E        B     L  _  _   D         G    I    V     E        B     L  _  _   D 

G    I     V    E        L     I     F    E          S   _     V    E    _   L     I     F   E

Nope. This ain't a word game or anything. However, something doesn't seem right, does it? Looks like something is missing, huh? Yup. A bunch of letters. A, B and O. Imagine a world without them. Two words: Pandemonium and chaotic. My favorite! Yay! Hang on, A738a. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Phooey. These

  It started getting dark so I decided to go back to my hotel.  As I started to drive towards the town it started snowing heavily.   Suddenly I heard a loud blast and realized that my tire had blown up causing me to stop  at the side of the road.  It was getting so cold  in the car that I started to freeze.

  Up ahead I saw a flicker of light coming from an old cottage.  I made my way to the cottage to see if I could get some assistance.  Before my hand even reached the door, it started to open. 

This is on the motivation of Tanya's writing challenge.

This is also in response to Expector's writing challenge, because it pertains the reported as well as direct narration.

LONESOME:

The twilight was in the offing, (it had already started getting dark), when I started driving to the beach.   I moved towards the rock where I was used to sitting.  No, I do not get scared if the darkness even prevail the atmosphere, I rather feel close to the Nature.  That day I was in gloom, (without any reason, a

Reality : Childhood

This is an old story. I don’t remember the details, but I try to point up the important things only. This is about childhood, friendship, family love and something else, something new but strange, at least for a kid. I bet one cannot actually define what happened, but I tell you anyway.

Me :

Seven years old, second grade in elementary school.

Physically : A short girl. Mentally : Clumsy.

Was having my school holiday.

There was a new student and new kid in our neighborhood,just move

Hi, my dear friends! I was out for some time, but I am back and would like to propose you  one more easy challenge for you to warm up a little. In this challenge, you should write a short story (very short as I am still very busy) using both or any of the given pairs. 

BE/GET + adjective/past participle.

BE/START + present participle/ gerund.

You don't have to use all the words, only those you need to explain your mind.

I will explain using the examples.

He is sick (means he is not feeling good now).

The other day my daughter came to me and said that she had a crush on a boy who lived in our neighborhood. I asked her to tell me who is he; she started talking about him.  I said her that I knew him. She asked me if he was attractive. I replied yes he was. She continued talking about him and that maybe when she was older they could marry. It made me laugh and I said:” sweetie you are still so young besides he is older than you.” She said: dad is older than you too.

I told her that when I was at

On the wings of an eagle

If you want to dream, fly high in the sky!
Take the clouds like a blanket.
Look at how all the stars shine for you.
Look at the myriad of raindrops;
those all are tears of lovers
whose wishes were not met yet.
But don't stay there too long.
The sun will drive the clouds away
Heaven will send you an eagle,
he takes you on his wings and brings you back
so that you can find happiness on earth.

There are a lot of English vocabs that actually originate from Greek Mythology; thesis, thesaurus, hypothesis, etc. And don't get me started on the names: Odysseus, Perseus, Theseus. Yeah, yeah, yeah, a lota "yeuseus". Here are some of my faves.

Narcissus

On a scale of 1-10 he was a twenty! He was so obsessed with himself that when he saw his own reflection in the river, he fell in love. Not realizing he was staring at himself, he stared at his reflection until he died. The flower that bloomed whe

My friend Anju and I were standing in line to book tickets for a movie. It was getting longer than we expected and Anju was getting annoyed. 

She told me that she would go to the inquiry desk and ask why they hadn't opened the office yet. 

She came back after a while and reported that they told her they would open the office only at 11 o'clock. 

"11 o'clock? That means we have to stand here for another hour!" I said, exasperated. 

Just then, a group of rough looking men came and cut in front of the

Summer

What a boring summer! Liesel thought.

She had finished all the house works and there was nothing she could do after that. She decided to climb the hill not far from her backyard. Lately she found it peaceful to lying on the shade of a tree, watching the clear sky with bubbles of clouds. She had been busy with her own mind, thinking and cursing her three brothers that she acclaimed ‘having best summer holiday ever’.

Hans, the first, mostly buried himself on pile of books. Study was always his

He said that I needed to live fiercely.  He expressed that he wanted me to be brave.  I had thought then that this was false since I had always been afraid of many things.  But he had repeatedly told me that I had not known the full measure of my strength.  I had laughed silently at those words.

  Then I got married and had children of my own.  He asked me one day if I had found my strength.  I said “I never sleep when my children are sick, I never cease to pray for their safety, I never let a da

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The Long i Sound /i:/

Welcome to our second pronunciation lesson!  Can you remember what we discussed a few days ago?  In my previous blog, we learned about the short vowel sound called - the schwa /ə/, pronounced ‘ah’ or ‘a’. This is the most important sound in English. If you haven’t read my blog yet, please check out here.

This time, I’d like to share with you some information about another vowel sound – the long i sound pronounced /i:/(ee). It’s also a part of the monophthong which means a sin

A mad Lib is kinda like a book which has a short story on each page with a lot of key words replaced with blanks. Beneath each blank is specified a category, such as "noun", "verb", "place", etc.  One player asks the others to contribute some words for the specified blanks, but the context for that word is NOT revealed. Finally, when the story is completed, s/he reads it out loud. The result is usually surreal or somewhat senseless and illogical. My favorite!

This is an excerpt from Stern and Pri

  Katrina is a medical student, she is staying in the University hostel with her friends. Today is her final practical exam. Katrina is nervous, her friend Roza said to her, 'You can relax about the exam'. Katrina turned and said, Roza said I could try to relax and shouldn't be so worried about the exam.  The girls in the next room came to see Katrina. 'we will help you with your tidy up', they said. Katrina told Roza that 'they said they would help me with my tidy up' so after the exam we can

We were created to last forever

God has ... planted eternity in the human heart. Ecclesiastes 3:11 (N LT) 

Surely God would not have created such a being as man to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. Abraham Lincoln

This life is not all there is. Life on earth is just the dress rehearsal before the real production. You will spend far more time on the other side of death-in eternity-than you will here. Earth is the staging area, the preschool, the tryout for your life in eter

Lying

I have experienced that most of us do lie to ourselves! It is much easier for some people to deceive themselves than to face a harsh reality that they can’t deal with. However, the interesting thing people lie often to those whom they love most and whom they hate most! Yesterday, my colleague also lied to me, I am not saying that her lie hurt me! 'I also lied when said that she could speak fluently and good at emailing than I”. She abruptly replied to me,” It’s okay, you could learn like me