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Jun.18.2013
Had an impromptu two by two evening -
A two mile walk to meet two friends. We visited for two hours and I had two beers. Then I walked two miles home.
The friends were Beckie & Becky, which might be a good title for a television show about two divorced women who start a pet...
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Jun.18.2013
Yesterday, I posted about one of the most important things you can do to make your writing shine: Write with passion. Today, I’m going to write about a second way to add radiance to your writing: Authenticity.
The authentic voice is the holy grail of writing. Passion isn’t a difficult thing to...
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Jun.18.2013
I spend far too much time on trivialities in this blog, ignoring what it should truly be about. Words. Stories, creation and art – the ups and downs of the particular life behind my own stories. Some things matter more than others, and today, I have decided, is a very good day.
First, unrelated to...
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Jun.17.2013
Once again, I'm experiencing a problem with Red Room. It becomes such a time suck.
It's a delightful time suck, like discovering secret tunnels in a house that you thought you knew. Exploring the tunnels reminds me of how it used to be in the Internet's woolly early days, before the...
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Jun.17.2013
How Do I Find Topics that are Going to Sell?
Years ago, I went to a small conference on writing for young adults. After a talk by an editor for a well-known publishing house, one of the participants got up and asked, “How do I know what kids are going to be interested in? How do I find topics that...
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Jun.17.2013
They are slippery, evasive, coy.... They dangle on our tongues, sometimes, yes, at the tip, and sometimes on an edge, not steady enough to bite, not near enough to taste, resting their little feet on molars or eye teeth. Then they vanish, and reappear in a teasing flicker, as if chuckling,...
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Jun.17.2013
"I have been trying to figure out why writing is such a glorious experience with you and such a disappointment for me with others. It has a great deal to do with you -- kindness, intelligence, compassion -- but I also knew it was something you knew about writing that others didn't. I came...
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Jun.16.2013
Hi, everyone. Welcome to WRITING LITE #2. I’m still talking about suspense, but this time I start at the beginning and discuss the power of that first line. I talk about why it's important, how to approach it, and give you some of my all-time favorite examples.
It is a little longer than I...
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Jun.16.2013
Today in the car I heard the Pink Floyd song "Time," a song I haven't heard in a while. There is a line that always gets to me: "and then one day you find, ten years have got behind you - no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun."
Time is a bitch. That's one of the great things...
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Jun.15.2013
Today is Great Stuff for Writers day at Writing as a Sacred Path, when I suggest resources for people who want to explore a topic a little deeper.
This week, I've been posting about spiritual journaling, so today, I'd like to suggest four great resources for anyone interested in beginning or...
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