Tag: writing
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Of Life, Physicality and Stories…
Much of the ability to write compelling fiction comes from the willingness to sink one’s teeth into the substance of life, or that, which flows out of life. Conversations, kind smiles, tilts of the head can reveal joy, simmering sadness, or the ache of a heart playing upon a crafted smile. These are the human…
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Of Cruise Ships, Planes, Ocean and Sky…
Traveling by ship, or cruising, starts with the point or process of embarkation, going onto the ship and finding our room. Your bags arrive soon after that. And within an hour or so the ship sets sail. Unlike with an airplane, where matters move at a faster pac
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Sick With a Cold…
I’ve been sick the last five days with a cold. It’s been hard to write. And so I haven’t. I also feel sicker, worse, for not writing. It’s always difficult for me to give up my writing, even when it’s temporary and I know I need to rest.
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Why I Write…And When I Don’t…
I think the hardest thing about writing is staying with it. Yep, staying with it. The words, the phrases, the sentences, the paragraphs. It’s all in there–the writing. [More…] But to write you have to stay with it from the single letter to the period at the end of the sentence that concludes the last…
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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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The Holidays and Traveling Slowly…
Words for opening of the next scene came to me as I lay in bed. Fearful that i might lose them, I turned on the lamp beside my bed and wrote them by hand.