The Writing Life
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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If you want to be a better, you can’t be a one-trick pony. You have to explore other forms of writing. Test yourself. Develop new characters. Enrich existing ones. Make them deeper, rounder, more lifelike.
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It’s been a project two years in the making, but Write Right’s coloring book is finally done and available for purchase! It’s been such fun to work on the drawings, many of which have never been published online—I want people to be as surprised and delighted as I was while I drew them.
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By a strange twist of fate, the official launch of the Write Right Colors Shakespeare coloring book (for adults) and Shakespeare’s birthday are on the same day, April 23, 2016. What luck! What stars!
If you want to be a better writer, particularly a writer who authors white papers and case studies, you have to be an archeologist. Grab your hat and a whip—you’re going to need them. Boulders will give chase; you will fall into a pit of snakes. Be prepared. Come with the whip at the ready.
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To be a writer is to choose the work of limiting. You focus on one thing and not another. You know the other thing is there; it’s peeking its head around the corner or out of a hole, sticking its tongue out, cocking its head, jabbering in a foreign tongue—some nonsense about a tea party?—and you feel the temptation to follow. You want to know where the other creature goes, what its story is, why it acts the way it does.