Category: Writing Experiments
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Coffee Talk: Your Tax Return Diary
Tweet Have you ever really thought about what your tax return says about you? I know a person who used to work at a tax office for the government and although illegal, this person would look up people’s tax returns because they were nosy. You’ll be happy to know they no longer work there, but…
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Feb Coffee Talk: Dream Jobs, Eccentrics and Tax Returns
Tweet UPDATE: This coffee talk has been posted live here: Coffee Talk: My Tax Return Diary All, I’ve decided it was time for our next coffee talk. For those of you new to this series, it is a way to link two seemingly unrelated topics together to stretch one’s writing ability and make for entertaining…
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Coffee Talk: My Desk is a Clutter Magnet
Tweet Welcome to another addition of Coffee Talk. The subject of this month’s writing challenge is as follows: Use a Household item as a Metaphor to teach a life or personal finance lesson In addition to an article of my own, at the bottom of this post, I will be linking to other great bloggers…
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Sept Coffee Talk Topic – Household Metaphors
Tweet Folks, it’s time to start thinking about this month’s coffee talk subject. As these coffee talks are meant to stretch the particpants as writers, I thought the next few will also include something to practice in the English Language. Metaphors, Puns, Similes , etc Use a Household item as a Metaphor to teach a life…
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What my Dysfunctional Family Taught Me About Life
Tweet Today’s Coffee Talk topic asks bloggers to write about the following sentence: “What my Dysfunctional ________ taught me about ________.” I will be posting a series of links at the end of this post with other bloggers who have chosen to participate in this event. These are always fun read. I had a hard…
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Coffee Talk is Back – Mark you Calendars
Tweet I’ve recently received some feedback that my coffee talk topics have been missed, so by popular demand, I am bringing them back. It’s time for this Month’s Topic. I’ve decided to rename this regular series as Coffee Talk because it reminds me of SNL where Mike Meyers would give a topic and have people…
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The 7 Links Project
Tweet I was tagged by Sandy from Yes I’m Cheap to participate in a meme called My 7 Links Project. According to Young and Thrifty, “this project got started by Katie from Trip Base. The purpose of it is to get the blogger to reflect upon some posts (aka dig up posts from the past)…
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Coffee Talk – Financial Lessons from your First Sweetheart
Tweet In honor of Valentine’s Day, today’s coffee talk will be about first boy or girlfriends and what people have learned from those experiences. Most of the posters for today will have to reach far into their memory banks for this story. Be sure to check back at the end of the day as I…
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Next Coffee Talk Feb 14th – Your First Sweetheart
Tweet All, it’s time for next Month’s Writing Experiment. I’ve decided to rename this regular series as Coffee Talk because it reminds me of SNL where Mike Meyers would give a topic and have people talk amongst themselves about it. If you are a new reader to this site, I started this series a couple…
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Coffee Talk – Gaining Time + Income
Tweet Today’s post is part of a blogging experiment asking people to figure out their plans to either increase time or increase income for 2011 and use 5 actions starting with the letter S to describe their plan of attack. Although I plan on doing a little bit of both (with another attic full of…