I subscribe to “Writer’s Digest,” both the print and the online versions.  So I am regularly being admonished or exhorted or advised on many things related to writing.  At first, I took them seriously.  But I’m less inclined now.

Why?

 … finish reading Writing Advice

I have a friend who reads my blog occasionally, so when she does she reads large sections of it at once.  Recently she said, “I’d like to go back and start with the first entry and read them in order,

 … finish reading The Beginning

I’m afraid the paragraph is going the way of the dinosaur.

When I learned to write, words were the building blocks of sentences.  Sentences were the building blocks of paragraphs.  And paragraphs were the building blocks

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I just read an article with this headline, and I thought it would be about how to focus on the act of writing itself instead of all the adjunct activities that accompany it these days. I thought it would provide

 … finish reading Make Writing Your Business

There’s something about external deadlines that gets me motivated. Maybe it’s because I was a freelance writer for twenty-five years and had to turn in copy on time to get paid. Perhaps it harkens further back to when I was

 … finish reading Contest

I decided to do a writing prompt challenge; that’s where someone provides a scenario and the writer in you takes it and runs for five hundred words.  The prompt was this:

“You’re walking to grab lunch when you see a

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