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Why do you write…in six words or less? | Sara Toole Miller - Fiction & Non-Fiction Writer
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Why do you write…in six words or less? By Sara Toole Miller on January 10, 2012. Asked readers to write a memoir in six words or less. Based this experiment on an old story. Supposedly Ernest Hemingway was asked to write a full story in six words or less. His response:. For Sale: baby shoes, never worn. Smith magazine took a page from Hemingway and has since published a book filled with six-word memoirs such as:. Fifteen years since last professional haircut – writer, Dave Eggers. 8221; I’m sure we...
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Overcoming Goal-Shyness | estuarywalkthrough
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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. How to Think Sideways projects. Larr; It may look like I’m staring into space…. That didn’t help one bit →. Recent efforts to overcome Goal-Shyness have allowed to me admit the shocking truth – I have goals! Conventional wisdom these days holds that some of the first steps to attaining goals are to clarify them (be specific), break them down into manageable chunks (that’s what my Small Steps posts. So, following up on Kristen Lamb.
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It may look like I’m staring into space… | estuarywalkthrough
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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. How to Think Sideways projects. Larr; Happy Birthday, Bay Bridge! Overcoming Goal-Shyness →. It may look like I’m staring into space…. Most of my work right now is taking place in my head and so I look like I’m not being productive. Actually I’m not being productive if you take that word apart and try to find what I’m producing. Not many words, some vague ideas, some inklings and notions. The driver of my locomotive, who has traine...
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The Valley of the Spring-Daughter | Mike Schulenberg
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Realms of Perilous Wonder. The Valley of the Spring-Daughter. The Valley of the Spring-Daughter. A mythic fantasy piece written in November 2010 and entered in the 11th Annual Short Short Story Competition hosted by Writer’s Digest. Spring has not come, Harek said to the assembled warriors. Winter should no longer be upon us, but the winds only grow colder and our village lies buried in snow. Who among us will go to the valley of Svala the Spring-Daughter and ask why we are cursed? You know as well as I ...
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Just Finish the Book Already… – Racheal Allen
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Being a Writer is A Lot Like Being in Love. Things I Love…. March 12, 2017. Feb 1, 2012. Just Finish the Book Already…. Middot; 17 Comments. I’m really good at. Now, I’m throwing that kind of thinking out the window. I’m telling myself that if I can see it in my head, and if it touches me in a way that I think will resonate with others, it. Be good enough to finish. I owe it to the creativity that is bursting to get out, the chance to be seen by the world. 1 Take Advantage of Momentum-. Successful writer...
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Tired of Writing? 3 Ways to Beat Writer’s Exhaustion… – Racheal Allen
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Being a Writer is A Lot Like Being in Love. Things I Love…. March 12, 2017. Mar 25, 2012. 3 Ways to Beat Writer’s Exhaustion…. Middot; 6 Comments. I’m weeks away from finishing the manuscript for. I came across this quote recently:. 8220;…Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon which one can neither resist nor understand.’–George Orwell. 1 Take a break if you need to-. Somet...