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KILLER HEELS AND OTHER MURDEROUS FAKES
TODAY’S WRITING TIP: ALWAYS BE TRUE LOVE LOUBOUTIN For spring 2013, the French shoe house has on offer this pair of luxury hi-top, the Louis Flat Python, featuring different scales of snakeskin...
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ELBOWS ON THE DINNER TABLE
REWARD AND PUNISHMENT Maybe I’m too Catholic, but sometimes there is salvation in suffering. Crucifixion (musée du cabinet des médailles, BNF) (Photo credit: dalbera) TODAY’S WRITING TIP: TO QUOTE...
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THE MIRACLE OF THE YELLOW FLOWERS
THE COLOR OF SUNSHINE Yellow flowers answered an all-important question for me, which is why from then on I’ve always associated the color yellow with miracles. (Photo credit: @Doug88888) TODAY’S...
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AN ESSAY IN COLOR
TODAY’S WRITING TIP: USE ADJECTIVES WITH RESTRAINT AND ONLY WHEN THEY ADD INFORMATION OR EVOKE AN IMAGERY OR APPEAL TO THE SENSES, AS COLORS DO. MAN OF BEAUTY MAC senior makeup artist Victor Cembellin...
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AN IMPOSSIBLE CONVERSATION AT SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY IN PARIS
TODAY’S WRITING TIP: IN A DIALOGUE, THE WORDS ARE NOT YOURS, BUT YOUR CHARACTERS’. LET THE WORDS REFLECT NOT WHO YOU ARE, BUT WHO THEY ARE — YOUNG OR OLD, SOPHISTICATED OR PLEBEIAN, CLEAN-SPOKEN OR...
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THE BOY IN THE ROOM
TODAY’S WRITING TIP: EVERY TIME YOU WRITE, YOU ARE CONFRONTED BY VOICES, A VARIETY OF THEM — YOUR MOTHER’S, YOUR FATHER’S, THE VOICE OF FRIENDS, THE VOICE OF FOES, THE VOICE OF REASON, THE VOICE OF...
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OSCAR WILDE STARS IN A THRILLER
I am happy to see you again, [but] this happens to be my birthday, Robert, and on each of my anniversaries I mourn the flight of one year of my youth into nothingness… –Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and...
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THE SUICIDE BRIDGE
TODAY’S WRITING TIP: TRAVEL. I discovered it in George Melly’s Paris and the Surrealists, a picture book I bought from a street vendor in downtown New York. For many years, it gave me so much pleasure...
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D.V.NATION
TODAY’S WRITING TIP: USE THE FACTS TO CREATE A FANTASY AND USE FANTASIES TO CREATE A FACT. Over the past few...
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