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Fear is Fear

7/15/2014

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Do you fear failure, or do you fear success?

Does it really matter which one?

Isn’t fear still fear no matter how you slice it?

Don’t be intimidated!

Write in defiance!

Let your pen be mightier than your fear!

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Be Courageous !

6/11/2014

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“Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.”

― Robert McKee

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BIBLE TRIVIA

4/22/2014

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What book and verse of the Bible reveals Sanballat's opposing attitude?


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YOU'VE BEEN BLOCKED!

4/16/2014

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“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”

― Neil Gaiman


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WRITERS ARE COURAGEOUS

4/9/2014

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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

― Sylvia Plath,

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Writers Inspire

4/2/2014

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"It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition."

- Isaac Asimov



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So you wanna be a writer

3/24/2014

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Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.
- Jane Yolen



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Nobody Can Be You But You

3/20/2014

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“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”       
Neil
Gaiman





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Be Completely Sensible!

8/6/2013

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When writing description:

Be not only your reader’s eyes, but be their hands, their ears, their mouths, and their noses.
 
Take those “delicious morsels” that some call words, and create images your readers can taste, touch, smell, and hear.

Examples:

She’d thought about cornbread all day long. She put her key in the lock of her front door and turned it. She hoped her mom had kept her promise. The kitchen was in full view as she let herself into the house. She spotted the plate of cornbread on the table. She was happy. She loved cornbread.

She’d thought about cornbread all day long. She put her key in the lock of her front door and turned it. She hoped her mom had kept her promise. As she opened the door the unmistakable aroma of just baked corn coupled with warm melted butter, and sweet honey circled around her head and tickled her nose. She was happy. She loved cornbread.

Which one is best? You be the judge!

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How to Pack Your Suitcase

7/24/2013

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When it comes to writing your characters’ spoken dialogue an “incorrectly packed” set of quotation marks ( “ ” ) is like an untidily packed suitcase filled with clothing hanging over all of its sides.

Think of your characters’ spoken dialogue and all of its punctuation as the clothing inside of “your suitcase.” You want everything inside that should be.

Correct:       “That’s not what I said,” Jackson replied. “Clean out
                                those ears of  yours!”

Incorrect:   “That’s not what I said”, Jackson replied. “Clean out

                               those ears of  yours”!

Correct:          Jennifer whispered, “Jackson, you haven’t taken your

                                medicine, have you?”

Incorrect:     Jennifer whispered, Jackson, you haven’t taken your

                               medicine”, “Have you”?

Keep your quotation marks neatly and correctly packed!


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