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  • Ray Bradbury makes copious lists of anything that catches his eye or ear—a phrase, a snatch of lyric, a word, a title, a word-picture.

    BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Writing Life: Putting It into Words 2010

  • Please keep in mind that the mind and “word-picture thought” create and work in tandem with the ego.

    Two Views of Mexico 2008

  • Here is Robert B., a pen pal at Lawrence Auster's View from the Right, painting a fond word-picture of the pristine sparkle of Minnesota winters past:

    Slay Rides Through the Snow: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • He paints us a little reminder, a word-picture, if you will, and it is dark, indeed.

    Linda Hansen: Fears, Smears And Loathing In The Deep South: The Race Is On 2008

  • Last week at Torch my friend Erica was teaching, and she shared this really cool word-picture of how God works in our lives sometimes.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Happy 2008

  • Last week at Torch my friend Erica was teaching, and she shared this really cool word-picture of how God works in our lives sometimes.

    The Beauty of Broken Glass Happy 2008

  • I remember, that evening in the boat upon the lake, floating among the reflections of the mountains and valleys, the crags and pine woods, which were my earliest remembrance, I drew a word-picture of my sordid childhood.

    No Thoroughfare 2007

  • For our readers unfamiliar with the el, a word-picture:

    01.04 M-mv 2004

  • For our readers unfamiliar with the el, a word-picture:

    02.04 M-mv 2004

  • For our readers unfamiliar with the el, a word-picture:

    Archive 2004-02-01 M-mv 2004

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