Posts Tagged ‘Writing’
Traumas and Blog Prompts
In: CrazyBrain|Writing
16 Nov 2011One of the things that NaNoBlogThing does for its members is provide the occasional prompt for a post. Like most collections of blogging prompts, these are usually benign creativity boosters and story prompts to help out someone that gets stuck in writer’s block. But there was one that came up recently that didn’t sit well [...]
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The Difference between Choice and Failure
In: Navel Gazing
15 Jun 2011Failure. Ugly word, ugly connotations, ugly mental constructs built to avoid it. I was reading an article recently about when to stop doing something, and it kind of tweaked my brain about failure versus changing your mind. From the original article: In the past year it became increasingly clear that the Temple was not doing [...]
Fountain Pens are like Potato Chips
In: Writing
4 Apr 2011*crossposted from Seven Deadly Divas* It’s really hard to just have one. Because you buy one, and then you want some fun ink for it. And you can’t just buy ONE ink, so then you have two inks, and only one pen. So obviously you need another pen… and then it’s just downhill from there. [...]
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- Tags: anna has weird hobbies, fountain pens, ink, paper, pens, Writing
How I Write
In: Navel Gazing|Writing
16 Mar 2010In 10 simple steps, my creative process for blogging and writing short stories: Step 1 – Have an idea. Possibly mine said idea out of twitter, emails, conversations, comments, or creative friends Step 2 – Start writing something. Be unhappy with it, but write anyway. Keep writing until you have something kind of sort of [...]
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- Tags: blog, blogging, editing, mental dialogue, post, process, redundant, Writing
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- Jess: I made this last night, and it was delicious! It's a very versatile recipe, I made some substitutio [...]
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