Tag: writing
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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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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.…