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Impossible Goals Update

I’m going to make it. Just. I set myself the goal of finishing my first, rough draft, by the end f the month and as long as I keep going on my current schedule, the rough draft will be done on the thirty first. Parts of the manuscript are pretty dire, some are outright unreadable [...]

Micro Writing and You

Micro Writing is the art of writing in small, sometimes tiny, chunks throughout the day. This is the polar opposite of the 10,000 word marathon session. If you have lot of spare time, then of course sitting down and cranking out anywhere from 1000 words up is great. But what if you don’t have that [...]

Beating Writer’s Block

Writer’s Block. It’s the grizzly bear of writing problems, casually pushing over any trees you climb up to try and avoid it. Sooner or later as a writer you are going to confronted by a blank page (or these days, screen) and have no idea what to write. It’s frustrating, painful and frightening. It’s also [...]

A momentum of silence

I haven’t listened to anything by Michael Jackson for many years, and I don’t think I’ve ever considered myself a fan. In that vein my only memories of Farrah Fawcett are watching Charlie’s Angels re-runs. However during a moment of silence a local radio host had for both for them this morning, a problem I [...]

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