Tag: craft
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Of Perseverance, Remaining Open, and Characters that Embody Our Change…
Perseverance in completing that first draft it the first act of embarking on the journey of evolution we undergo each time we craft a story. Thus we focus our energies and concentration on towards typing each word so that we might complete each sentence, craft every paragraph, shape each scene. At this time, we, the…
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Of Borderlands, Willingness and Shifts in Consciousness…
Leaving the world as it is, and entering the border between the world as it was, and presently exists in the newly leveraged chaos of change requires courage and faith. It also asks for willingness to acknowledge that one has entered the unknown. Like our protagonists, each time we venture to write a new story…
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Prayers Enroute to the Pot of Gold…
I find it hard when praying to ask for blessings regarding my writing. perhaps that’s because I feel already gifted in that I am able to write, that my ability to craft stories and that I am doing so is such a wonderful gift.
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Passion and Responsibility…
This week was busy week. The children returned to school. Fall semester finals loom ahead for my 11th grader with two paper due in just one class. My eldest, a graduate student, faces no
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Peaks, Valleys and Plateaus…
Between all of this I want to finish the rough draft of the novel I started writing during NaNoWriMo. Though having reached the 50,000 minimum, I still have to complete the middle and write the
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The Gifts of Writing Fast…
While some are daunted by the daily word count asked of us (1600) during NaNoWriMo, the positive aspect of this entire venture is to simply write. … Such a high word count due to the compression of time (one month) leaves little time to think, which for me, is where the inner critic slips in