My goal for this year, as some of you know, is to write every day. I have quantified this (minimum of 500 words) and qualified this (something inventive or in scene). The goal is consistency, not quality or achievement beyond that. Just dailiness, habit, routine. These have not always been my strong suit, and I […]
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I am in a doctor’s office waiting room with my computer on my lap as I begin this blog. It’s certainly clean: a neat row of chairs, two stacks of magazines, some pamphlets in plastic displays and some laminated informational flyers on the walls. A plant in the corner. When we imagine having clear, organized
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This is part 2a of a 5 part series on Challenges to Daily Writing and How to Beat Them. Writers encounter organizational problems on a few different levels in approaching the daily habit: 1)The organization of the work itself and the tasks that lie within it. 2)The physical organization of the workspace. 3)The organization of
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For the next five weeks, I will be blogging about Five Challenges to a Daily Writing Habit and How to Beat Them. I hope you’ll let me know your thoughts, experiences and questions as we go along. Challenge One: Time No one has enough time to write. I’ve mentored a range of folks from working
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Resolved. It’s a legal term, a literary term and a New Year’s term. We make resolutions for ourselves, and we write them for our characters. Perhaps we all just want to direct our own happy ending. Another word for “resolutions” is “goals.” Here at the Book Writing World, we are big fans of goals. Knowing
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Book Writing World has collected a lot of wonderful success stories this year. Celebrate with us, tell us your successes or get ready for next week’s enrollment in 2014 BWW courses that will ensure your success in the New Year! Lea: My first book, Walk With Me: A Companion and Guide for Parents, was accepted
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Those of you following the television musical soap opera Glee will be aware that the character Finn Hudson died mysteriously and unexpectedly—because the actor who played him, Cory Monteith, overdosed on “a lethal combination of alcohol and heroin.” This is a tragic situation, and the more so to watch because the actor who plays his
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What is build? The progressive rise of stakes and action in a story. An increasing investment by the reader–and the characters. A story starts when (or just before) something happens that challenges the status quo, that throws everything off balance. And then what happens? The character attempts to address the problem, in the way that
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English was not their first language, it was clear. They stood on the sidewalk outside Davies Symphony Hall and peering at a guidebook, rotating it so that the orientation of the map matched the way they were facing. “MacAllister Street?” the man asked, and I told them they only had to walk three blocks. The
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“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.” — Eleanor Roosevelt Yesterday was my birthday. To celebrate, I spent Sunday in San Francisco at LitQuake, attending three panels on the art of memoir, short story and the novel, respectively. Then with two beloved friends, I tromped around the
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