Tim Chambers Humorous fiction, political satire, social satire

	Tim Chambers Nagoya, Japan Member since: Sep, 2009 Last login: 11/19/2009 Last update : 11/10/2009 Contact Me
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I've been a working writer most of my life, doing other jobs, occasionally, to augment my income. I now teach language and English composition at the university level overseas.

Naples
October 22, 2009
- Where else in the world could you be on a city bus at midnight, when the driver throws up his hands, declares, mi son sfasta riats, (my member has had enough), pulls the bus over to the side of the road, and shouts andiam a piglia une cafe, (let's go get coffee). All the young swains, like myself, descended from the bus behind him and went off on foot through the darkened streets on a quest for ...
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Getting Published (maybe) IV
October 20, 2009
- Update on my publisher. The first chapter of the manuscript was passed to two other editors, one responded that it wasn't her style either and she hadn't read the authors I quote. Shakespeare? She calls herself an editor and she's never read Shakespeare? Doesn't even recognize "to be or not to be?" Did she even go to high school?
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Dialogue
Hi Jonathan What, exactly, is your problem with writing dialogue?
Linking to your writing
Sumathi In the Contact Settings section of your profile you will find a place for your signature. You put your link there with the appropriate html tags.
Manuscript ready
I see no reason not to send at least a few sample pages, or include a link to it, as I do, if you have it posted online.
add a sentence
But what, exactly, is faith but the will to believe in what doesn't exist for fear that one can't understand what does, and where, in the end can that get us?
Thanks for posting the
Thanks for posting the Stegner Essay. I'm sure I read it years ago but it's good to be reminded of it.

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