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Archives for July 2016
How to Be a Better Writer: Accept Your Fear
Writing can be terrifying; publishing, more so. You come to the blank page, and expectations build. You’re supposed to put words down? What if they aren’t good words? What if you can’t find anything to write? What if nobody wants to hear what you have to say?
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Write Right Receives Her Inheritance
Once upon a time, according to a tale possibly written by the Grimm brothers, a shepherd leaves a small inheritance to his daughter and son: the homestead and three sheep. The daughter claims the house, and the son (played by Write Right) takes the sheep.
Deus Ex Machina
In a number of Greek myths, a god or goddess appears in the final act at the last, possible second and rescues everything and everyone. Sometimes, anyway. Half the time, the gods show up and squabble with each other or turn a human into a tree. Capricious, the Greek gods, definitely not the sort of creatures one wants to associate with too often. They’re petty, jealous, and, more often than not, foolish.
Welcome to the Proving Grounds
Some weeks batter you to pieces. Every piece of writing requires revisions. You’re told to focus on readability, concision, clarity—you know to do these things but somehow have not done them.
Welcome to the proving grounds.
You Shall Not Covet
The final commandment: you shall not covet. I knew what I wanted to draw from the very beginning of the series. However, my first attempt was a miserable, terrible failure.