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Where Do Writers Get Ideas?
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Part 2: The Things that Inspire you to Write For some reason, writers don’t like to talk about where they get their ideas. And to the outside observer, it seems like writers magically get their ideas from the thin air. In this series of posts, I hope to break down…
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Getting Used to Writing Badly
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I don’t know much about Jennifer Egan, but she’s credited with one great quote: “You can only write regularly if you’re willing to write badly. You can’t write regularly and well. One should accept bad writing as a way of priming the pump, a warm-up exercise that allows you to…
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Where Do Writers Get Ideas?
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Part 1: The Dreaded Question & Where to Start People who don’t write often ask this question: where do you get your ideas? It’s true that, when you look at a finished product, a story appears like magic. This strange person mysteriously came up with out-of-this-world idea that you would…
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#StealJournal Days 1 & 2
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Austin Kleon has thrown down the gauntlet: Posting a page from the #stealjournal every day in February. Play along: https://t.co/RT4r47Nr0D pic.twitter.com/MVQkKXwGMY — Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) February 1, 2016 I bought his journal a while ago and was waiting for proper motivation to have some fun. So I’ll be joining…
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New Story: “Blind”
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New short story alert! If you like mysterious, sci-fi thrillers, you might like Blind. Here is a snippet: “Just shut up and stay in the corner. Don’t move until I tell you to.” Lena felt the rough hands move over her body. They seemed to be probing rather than groping.…
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New Story: “Muerte Azul”
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I’ve been hard at work for the last few years writing stories. It’s part of the reason why comics have been so slow in coming. Sorry, but when the spirit takes you, you just gotta obey. In the coming days and weeks, I’ll be posting some of these fresh batches…