Tag: rhythm
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Interruptions and Writing with a Plan…
That I reached 50,000 words planted me square in the middle of my book, yes the dreaded middle. Writing the middle of a novel presents as my greatest challenge. I do not want the story to sag or the
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A Writer’s Voice
Hearing the words you’ve written and read in your own voice develops voice. It also awakens you, the writer, to your style of putting words together. You hear when your words fall away from that established cadence and rhythm, and when they come together. You come to see the endless possibilities of music your words…
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The Courage to Dance and Write
Writers dance with our characters. The words we write are the music delivering rhythm by which our feet move. The sentences and paragraphs that follow spin a melody, the context and situation wherein we in crafting our stories offer not only a depiction of transformation and change, but also the epiphany and transcendence of our…
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The Path of Writing: Word-by-Word
Commitment to the word is also a vow to filling the blank page, either every day, every other day, each week, etc. We all have our schedules, our routines. Nothing gets written without them.