NO! No! Cabernet Sauvignon or nothing!

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Normally yes. But this is bloody marvellous stuff. Maker (is that what you call them?) is Jekel though which doesn't inspire confidence. I just went for the price tag!

This is a message for E.G. Elspeth. Seeking permision to use your definition of creative prose.

I was searching the internet for a definition of "creative prose" and I found yours. I thought your definition described it perfectly.

I'm the creator of www.artuccino.com an Australian non-commercial imaginary cafe gallery in cyberspace, mixing art, coffee and wisdom. The web site also incorporates literature in our established sections called Guest Author, Poets' Corner, and our Magazine Rack.

I've commenced writing short pieces so I'm developing a new section on my web site called CREATIVE PROSE and I wanted to use your definition to describe the new section. I've tried to locate your direct email address at www.writewords.org.uk, without success.

My email address is challenor@artuccino.com I would be very much appreciative of your authorisation to utilise your definition of creative prose. If you approve can I note you as the source of the definition, for example, "source of quote EG of www.WriteWords.org.uk"

Diane Challenor
www.artuccino.com
Mixing Art, Coffee and Wisdom

Hi Diane,
The definition is not mine but from the editor of Zing magazine. I'm not sure if the magazine ever got started, but you would need to contact the editor for HER permission to use the definition!

Good luck with your project and I'm sure some of the ww members would be interested in submitting to your site.


Elspeth

Elspeth, thank you for responding so quickly. I'll follow your suggestion and try to find the source of the definition of creative prose at Zing Magazine. I often have a lot of fun chasing down the source of the various bits and pieces I want to use on Artuccino. People are usually very appreciative of the effort and respect shown.

As you suggested some of the participants in WriteWords may like to submit some work to Artuccino. If anyone reading this note feels they would like to submit some creative prose fitting within the theme of Art, Coffee and Wisdom (plus books, history, nature etc) to www.artuccino.com they are very welcome. Artuccino is a non commercial conservative site dedicated to beauty, bright colours, art, motivation, philosophy and happiness. For writers who may be interested, it probably would be a good idea to have a look through the site and see if the subject of their writing would fit in with the theme.

Artuccino a site about sharing. It Gives Artuccino's visitors the opportunity to show their work to the world. Until recently, we have been focused on art mainly, however, there is now a natural progression to short written pieces, hence my interest in Creative Prose.

We have a large collection of wise quotes and one of my intentions is to write small pieces about the interesting people who thought the wise thoughts. As time is limited this will happen slowly over the next few years. If anyone wants to do a piece on any of the quote sources e.g. Emerson, Thoreau, etc that would be fantastic and would speed up the work. Unfortunately there is no money in it only the pleasure of writing and being read.

The new section at Artuccino was uploaded yesterday (there is only one written piece on it at the moment). The new section is called Creative Prose and the internet address is http://www.artuccino.com/GallProse.html It will be followed soon by another section called Interesting People which will be another excellent space for Creative Prose related to short biographical articles.

Best of luck with your writing and thanks again for giving me the lead through to Zing Magazine.

Diane

Hi Diane,
Your site sounds interesting - I'll certainly check it out. In fact the magazine was called Zing Review and I'm pretty sure the editor went on to start up a non-fiction website but I can't remember her name or the name of the site.
I hope you manage to track her down!

Elspeth