Tag: Writing as a Craft
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On Writing & Storytelling: Today Was Not a Good Day to Write…
“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don’t have to make speeches. Just believing is usually enough.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Well, looks like tomorrow – a Saturday – I will likely be working on Reunion: Coda, even though…
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On Writing & Storytelling: From Chapter Nine to Chapter Ten, or: Pushing Forward, Thanks to the Time Jump Thingy
It’s early afternoon now here in my corner of Lithia, Florida, on Friday, June 9, 2023. I need to take a lunch-and-rest break in a bit so I can get going with my writing, so I will make this a short update. After looking at what I have written so far – at least based…
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On Writing & Storytelling: All Quiet on the Writing Front…for Now
Hi, Dear Reader. It’s early afternoon on Thursday, June 8, 2023, here in Lithia, Florida. Outside, it’s quite warm (83°F/29° but feels like 90°F/32°C under partly sunny skies) on this humid early summer day. Of course, I’m inside an air-conditioned house, with my blinds closed and my curtains only partially open, so my writing space…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Today I Edited; Tomorrow…I’ll Write?
Writer’s Log, Stardate 2306.7 “When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft After taking an hour-long rest-and-relaxation break before noon, I decided to focus my…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, May 23, 2023, or: Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho, It’s Back to Work I Go….
“Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise Hello there, Dear Reader. It’s late morning here in my corner of Lithia, Florida,…
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On Writing & Storytelling: A Slow Start Morphs into a Writing Marathon – and I Have the Strained Eyes to Prove It!
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 SITREP “Tell the story that’s been growing in your heart, the characters you can’t keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.” ― Jennifer Weiner It’s late evening on Wednesday, April…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, April 23, 2023, or, Weekend Update, Part the Second
You put the ‘Sun’ into my day. Happy Sunday! ― Anthony T. Hincks It’s late morning here in Lithia, Florida, on a quiet, cool-but-warming-up Sunday, April 23, 2023. I wanted to sleep at least until 8; I went to bed way past midnight (I didn’t go to the kitchen to check the time before I…
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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…
A Certain Point of View, Too 