Tag: independent writing
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Cluttered Mind
It took me two weeks to start writing a poem. There it was, sitting in my brain taking up valuable space. I wasn’t writing it down. Even having notebooks and cell phones available when there wasn’t a computer even, I, for some reason, chose to hold onto it. Kept it hovering in my thoughts as…
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How Not to Be a Writer: an instruction manual in reverse
So, you don’t want to be a writer? Good. This is definitely for you. These are the instructions on how not to be a writer at whatever stage of not wanting to write that you are at: Do not open your notebook (if you write via pen and paper) or that pesky word processing program.…
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10 Open Projects
That’s really is 9 too many. And I don’t mean that there are 10 projects that I am outlining or planning out. No, these are projects that I am actively writing or have started writing. Way too many. As part of my word tracking spreadsheet, I had added a rough, simple project tracker. Yesterday I…