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Take the February 750word challenge. The website 750words.com challenges writers every month to write every day that month and make it at least 750 words. Now, think about it. February only has 28 days; except this is a leap year, sorry. Still, that’s one day less to win this challenge. You can write 750 words [...]
Do you need to get your gripes out? 750Words.com bills itself as “Private, unfiltered, spontaneous, daily.” One way that I use the 750 Words to think like a writer is to get rid of all the negative un-writerly thoughts. Yes, I gripe. I complain. I #@$#($*#(*(. Yes, indeed, it is cathartic to do this in [...]
Today’s prompt for 30 Days to Thinking Like a Writer , is about you as a writer. What are you thinking about these days? What issues concern you? What are you passionate about? Let’s find out. Start your 750 words by typing these words and then continuing: I don’t know what I’m thinking about these [...]
Have you signed up for 750words.com yet? Or will you try doing 750 words on paper? I’ve just completed my 36th day of doing 750 words! If the first task of Think Like a Writer is to observe the world around you, the task of the fiction writer or the novelist, is to create, then [...]
Yesterday, December 31, my friend Charlie Woods rode his bike 60 miles and finished his yearly goal of 10,000 miles. That’s an average of 27.8 miles per day and he’s been hitting that goal for over 3000 days. Yes, without fail. Rain or shine (he has a stationary bike for bad-weather days), sick or healthy, [...]
What comes out depends on what goes in. Garbage in, garbage out. Literature in, literature out. But what if there’s nothing going in? I’ve been reading less lately and it shows in less coming out. Well, that’s not strictly true. I’ve been reading, but mostly internet articles, websites, blogs–not books. This week, though,I’ve read two [...]
The dot Triple-X domains are coming! .xxx (known as “dot triple-X”) is a voluntary option for pornographic sites on the Internet. The ICANN Board (which controls issues of domains) voted to approve the .xxx on March 18, 2011 and they opened on April 15, 2011. So, what’s the big deal now? The TLD entered its [...]
If you are a writer, you have five magic words: I am writing a book. These simple words (or variations of them) can be used to do a variety of tricks: Research. If you need research for your novel or your nonfiction words, you need help from experts. The Magic Words often open doors and [...]
4 Ways to Battle Discouragement When you are so very, very tired of yet another rejection, when discouragement threatens to overwhelm you, what do you do? Friends: One antidote is to stop writing and be with friends. Writer-friends are especially helpful because you can commiserate endlessly (read: complain) about how callous those horrible editors are, [...]
Life has been so busy lately! I will summarize some of my projects in a few pictures. I’ve written a nonfiction magazine article about the amazing purple martin roost in the middle of Lake Ouachita in western Arkansas. It is the largest such roost in the area; you must go to Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana [...]
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