Tag: writing
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When writing is inconvenient
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Because you won’t always have time to write. Over the past seven days, I sure as hell didn’t. It was the end of the quarter, I had a group project and a 15-page paper. I had manuscripts to edit, a prepaid trip to take, and a shitload of other stuff…
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Good writers satisfy their senses
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For the sake of simplicity, I’m only referencing the basic five senses: smell, touch, taste, sight, and hearing. As writers, we naturally gravitate toward what fills these experiences. We want quality food. I can have a hot $20 to my name, and you can guarantee that a decent meal is…
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Anxiety and Writer’s Block
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Though I say writer’s block, I’m certain that this applies to all modes of creativity. Anxiety is defined as a fear or nervousness about what might happen. A feeling of wanting to do something very much. The full definition goes on to describe that it’s a painful or apprehensive uneasiness…
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NaNoWriMo with Soul
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NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. Traditionally, the goal is to start and finish a 50,000-word novel within the month of November. Break it down and that equals about 1,667 words per day. If you can do it, go on with your bad self! I’m so serious! But if…
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Fundamental Freestyling (aka freewriting)
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You’re thinking out loud. But on paper. It’s radical truth-telling. Bold and unapologetic. Fundamental, meaning necessary. To yourself and to whomever reads it—should you choose to share it. It flows… For any length of time. Sometimes warping into poetry, maybe even a story. Or an enclosed journal entry that you…