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Using Writing to Explore the Unknown
Write what you know….Stories that are inspired and driven by personal life experiences can connect profoundly with readers. However, I also think it’s important to use writing as a tool to explore the unknown. How? Continue reading
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Are You Talking to Me? Advice on Writing Dialogue
Dialogue is an important part of any story. It gives insight into the relationships between characters, it can reveal a lot about the speaker, and it can move the story forward—if it’s done correctly. Am I the most knowledgeable person… Continue reading
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May I Barrow Your Eyes? Re-Writing Your Story with Others
Alright, home stretch! Here we go! Last week I wrote about how writing the second draft of a story sucks. Haha, just kidding (kind of). Second drafts are all about piecing together the initial draft of the story you wrote,… Continue reading
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What’s Your Ideal Writing Environment?
Something I’ve wrestled with as a writer is this mentality that I need the environment to be just so to get any real writing done. It has to be quiet but not too quiet. I have be writing in a… Continue reading
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The Traveling Bard, Vol. 1
Today I was thinking about posting the poems I wrote for people at pride here on my blog, but there was quite a few of them. So, I thought it would be better to have them available as a downloaded… Continue reading
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Challenging Myself: Writing Improvised Poetry at Twin Falls Pride
It’s been a goal of mine to do more things that scare me. While I certainly won’t be jumping off the Twin Falls bridge anytime soon, I still look for opportunities I can take part in that I know will… Continue reading
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The Most Obvious Writing Advice
When I was in my freshman year of high school, I received the most useful and obvious piece of writing advice in my life. And it all started with my borderline homophobic English teacher. (I know homophobic English teacher sounds… Continue reading
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What’s Your Word Count? My Writing Productivity Experiment
For those of you who don’t know, I am a productivity nut. I devour self-help and productivity books like I am orchestrating some sort of master plan to take over the universe. In reality, I am just trying to make… Continue reading
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Let Your Writing Be Crap
I’ve been around writers frequently enough to know that the most shared experience among us is that moment when we look at our own writing and say to ourselves: “Wow, that is a real piece of shit.” This moment can… Continue reading
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A Mindless Drive
Down the road, these arid fields Turn into waves of darkness— Crash into the wincing light of my tin shell, Flood the air, the sky, the night, Consume the light of the waning moon, Consume the glimmer in my eye—… Continue reading
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