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writing issues

For Girl Talk Thursday

March 3, 2010

I’m frus­trated with myself. I know what I want and I am pretty sure I have the skills I need. What I lack is the trust in myself to try to do what I want to be doing.  Maybe I just need some­thing or some­one else to tell me I can do all these things. […]

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Five Things you can do When Life Overwhelms You

January 27, 2010

If you’re hav­ing a bad day, week, month even, it’s hard to sit down and focus on writ­ing. Projects which you know are com­ing up, dead­lines creep right along and you just get more and more behind by the moment. It drags on your spirit and takes your cre­ativ­ity with it. But, here are five things […]

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Should you Write for a Blog Network?

January 3, 2010

A blog net­work is a group of peo­ple writ­ing together to cover a set of top­ics all as part of the same larger group.

Some blog net­works are writ­ers with their own unique blogs, only con­nected through the net­work as a way of build­ing a com­mu­nity, such as 9Rules.
Another kind of net­work is more like an […]

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You Can’t Focus on your Flaws

January 2, 2010

In Writ­ing Thoughts, Laura Spencer writes about Unhealthy Com­para­son. The feel­ings of self doubt we get when we com­pare our­selves to other writ­ers who seem to be accom­plish­ing more, doing bet­ter, etc.
“The trick when read­ing other writer’s works is to spend enough time so that you learn some­thing usable, but not so much time that you […]

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TV People are Not Real">TV People are Not Real

December 26, 2009

It kind of bugs me when you watch some­one order a cof­fee or food on TV and then it just sits there, uneaten. Next thing they all leave and the food they said they wanted is pretty much untouched. This hap­pens a lot on soap operas. In one, Gen­eral Hos­pi­tal, peo­ple go to Kelly’s Diner, […]

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Fix Writer’s Cramp

May 20, 2009

From Life­Hacker: Loosen Up Your Writ­ing Grip to Ban­ish Pain.
If your hand gets cramped and sore when you write long hand try to give up your death grip on the pen. Don’t carve your words onto the page. If you work on not press­ing down so hard or squeez­ing the pen like a hun­gry python, […]

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