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Writing and “Respiration”

People are built to breathe. Literally. You’ve heard the old warning; a person can go two weeks without food if they have to. Two days without water at best. But two minutes without air. (Broad estimate, but it sounds better with all the twos.) Nothing works without breathing. Allow me to be morbid for a …

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Creating Off Course

It’s important to keep writing through some difficulty. While it is no sin to start many writing projects never to finish them, if you want to get anywhere in regards to a work that others can enjoy and possibly pay for, you obviously have to finish. And finishing means, as I said, a good amount …

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Best Advice to Build Better Writing

Above all other advice I have about improving one’s writing, I embrace a triumvirate of tips far above all others. Two are talked about often in writing and editing circles. The first being to read. Read especially within the genre you wish to write in, but any reading on a regular basis is helpful. You …

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Writing Advice From the Trenches

Much of what I post here is for writers or those curious about writing. No secrets there. But it comes with this caveat; I am a foot soldier in the trenches of the writing landscape. Is this a war? In some ways, but it’s not the ideal metaphor. I use it in the sense that …

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Tell Me About Yourself…If You Must

If you’re a writer, you are lightyears ahead of the game if you love to talk to strangers, especially if you love talking about yourself. The great irony of a words-based calling is that the need to construct sentences and words in an efficient, evocative, memorable manner does not stop even with the completion of …

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