There are times when you have to sit down and slam out your copy all at once. You have a tight deadline or you just have so much to say that you have to get it all out at once and quickly. If you have the time, there’s another trick to working past the writer’s block. I call it setting the stage. If I’m working on a non-fiction story, I try to do...
Read MoreIt is much easier to say that writers write than it is for writers to write. A blank page is overwhelming and sometimes the ideas are so unwieldy that the refuse to be corralled long enough to be put on paper (or computer screen). That’s when a writer needs tricks to get things moving along. All good writers have their a few to trot out as they get stuck....
Read MoreThe most obvious piece of advice that successful writers give to wannabe writers is that if you want to be a writer, you have to write. It seems that is something that go without saying. And yet, I know from personal experience, that it doesn’t happen. People get intimidated about putting things down. It has to be grand. It has to be mind-boggling. It has to...
Read MoreThere is a poignant scene in the movie The River Runs Through It when ‘ is home schooling him. He turns in an essay and his father frowns a bit and tells him to cut it in half. The boy returns with the assignment and the father tells him to again cut it in half. He does so again and is finally released to go fishing. It may seem torturous and unnecessary,...
Read MoreI did something I thought I’d never do this morning: I ran a 5K race in the rain. Pouring rain. Buckets of heavy rain. I wasn’t the only one, but there weren’t a lot of us. Here’s the thing – I thought it would be awful. I thought I would hate it. I thought I’d have my worse time ever. So why did I do it? Well, when I woke up and...
Read MoreAbout the closest I get to biking these days is walking my bike along side my 4 year old who is still on training wheels, so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when DH suggested mountain biking through the woods. We decided having not done this for years that we would stick to what looked on the map to be the main trail. If that was the main trail, I shudder...
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