Tag: #CreativeWriting
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, April 6, 2023, or: Carving Out Time to Read (and Other Challenges)
Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s late morning here in Lithia, Florida, on Thursday, April 6, 2023. I just finished my second – and last – cup of morning coffee, and even though I have caffeine in my system, I’m still a bit sleepy. Clearing the cobwebs up in Brain Central is not as easy as…
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On Books & Reading: My TBR List for April 2023, or: You Can’t Be a Good Writer if You’re Not a Good Reader
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Books, CreateSpace Independent Publishing, Creative Writing, Fire & Steel: The End of World War Two in the West, Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947, James D. Hornfischer, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Military History, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Operation Downfall, Peter Caddick-Adams, Reunion: A Story, Star Wars, Star Wars: Brotherhood, The Kick-Ass Writer (Chuck Wendig), Who Can Hold the Sea: The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960, World War II (1939-1945)Time Marches Inexorably Onward… “Time flies over us but leaves its shadow behind.” – Nicholas Hawthorne Well, Dear Reader, here we are on Wednesday, April 5, 2023; it’s the middle of the first workweek of the month, and – once again – I am dumbstruck by how fast time seems to fly. I could have…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Getting Over the Fear of Starting is Not Easy, but it is Necessary
“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.” ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings I have a confession to make. Every time I embark on a new writing project that’s more substantial than a blog post, I feel both excitement and…
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Musings & Thoughts for Friday, March 31, 2023, or: What Do You Mean, ‘March is Over’?
All Quiet on the Northwestern Front So, it’s late morning here in Lithia, Florida, on Friday, March 31, 2023. Another week, and another month, and another quarter of a year, have ended. I don’t have much in the way of news; the house in Brandon is still being remodeled and renovated, and since the owner…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Playing Hooky (on a Sunday) from Storytelling
“Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft As I sit here at my writing desk in a house in Lithia, Florida, it is late morning…
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On Writing & Storytelling: A Writer’s Rest Day & More Arrows for My Quiver
“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 It’s late afternoon here in lovely Lithia, Florida, on Saturday, March 25, 2023. Since it’s the weekend, and since…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Good Stories Come to Those Who Wait
Good Stories Come to Those Who Wait “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, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Okay, folks. Listen up. It’s going to be…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Baby Steps are Better Than No Steps at All
“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.” ― Graham Greene, Ways of Escape SITREP: All Quiet on the Writing Front – For the Moment It’s…
A Certain Point of View, Too 