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Are You Treating the Problem or the Symptoms?

June 3, 2010
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My Facebook friends know all about my recent computer woes. They started when my computer started acting funny. Applications kept crashing. Restarting took several minutes, not seconds – an eternity by Mac standards. My keyboard sporadically stopped working. At my wit’s end, I tried to wipe my hard drive and start afresh. (This was after [...]

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Should I Wear a Cape?

May 4, 2010
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Much of the writing process seems to be about putting yourself in a writing state of mind. Several of the entries on this blog cover different ways I lure my writing self to the page: fountain pens, pretty journals, cupcakes, overpriced headphones. What about a writing uniform? I’ve bought NaNoWriMo gear to remind me of [...]

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Productivity or Procrastination?

April 24, 2010
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One of my greatest struggles lies in tearing myself away from my practical responsibilities to spend time on my writing. Work and family can eat up every spare second. How can I carve out enough time for my personal passions? This quest has led me to read a number of books designed to help me [...]

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Just Do It

April 8, 2010
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Some years ago, I picked up The Write-Brain Workbook. Most likely, I had forgotten to return a reply card to the Writer’s Digest Book Club, but I was happy with this purchase nonetheless. Bonnie Neubauer’s colorful workbook offers 366 short exercises “to liberate your writing.” Bold images combine with intriguing story starters to fire up [...]

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Why Are You Writing?

March 30, 2010
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Is it the lure of fame? Fortune? An easy life of spinning tales when inspiration strikes? Seeing the country on book tours? These dreams are fine as long as you continue writing when they don’t materialize. Chances are, they won’t. Sorry. Statistically speaking, you probably won’t be the next James Patterson. (My chances are equally [...]

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Make Your Writing Personal

March 15, 2010
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It seems to me that much of our angst surrounding writing comes from not producing the stuff for public consumption: that novel, short story, screenplay, you name it. Journals, diaries, even morning pages are easier because we’re pretty confident no one else will ever read them. Those are our private rants, never to be judged. [...]

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Mind Over Matter

March 1, 2010
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Sometimes the writing comes easy. Sometimes it’s like hauling a forty-pound bag up the stairs at Penn Station. Regardless, you have to keep at it. If you’re serious about writing, you don’t have the luxury of waiting for inspiration to strike. Besides, those feelings about “good” writing days and “bad” writing days don’t mean jack [...]

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Feasting on a ‘Taste’

February 19, 2010
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You ever  have one of those days where time gets away from you? When you have ten hours’ worth of “to-do” items and maybe six hours in which to do them? That pretty much sums up life as I know it. So many grand plans, so little time in which to execute. We all choose [...]

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How Writing Whittles My Waist

February 3, 2010
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You’ve probably heard the advice about choosing one, and only one, goal to pursue. The idea is that you’ll increase your chances of success because you’re focusing your attention. Consider time, that elusive resource we never have enough of – even though we all technically have the same amount: 24 hours per day. If I [...]

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