Tag: learning to write
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Why I am Failing as a Writer: Part 8 – The Things We Think We Know
For once, I am not certain I really connect with this one. I am not failing as a writer because I really believe I know how to write. Or that I already know X, Y, or Z about the craft. I really don’t. If anything, my problem is the opposite. Or rather, it is that…
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I know nothing…
and I don’t care (or do I care?). Let’s face this one simple fact, or rather, let me face this one simple fact: I don’t know what the hell I am doing. I really don’t. Before you take to the races with assumptions, I am talking about writing. Storytelling. Novel writing. Blogging… the whole kit-n-kaboodle.…
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This Careless Writer
The difference between being a careless writer and one who is working towards growing as a writer is precisely the latter. Until recently, I was pretty sure that I was growing. Maybe I was, but I feel now that I was more the former, rushing to get work out into the world before it was…
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More on Writing on Paper
A theme for the week! Not really a theme per-say, but rather it is becoming a topic that I will be repeating for the foreseeable future. That topic? Writing by hand. For the last decade or so, my writing by hand has been limited to non-existent. I’ve tried to write, as stated before, using some…