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Journal Entry Type #19: Do What I Can

10/07/2019

New Year Resolutions, Random Posts, Writing

I recently posted somewhere else my ability to touch the back of my feet with relative ease. The thing I didn’t mention were my thighs hurting like hell before I bothered my roommate and asked if he’d take a picture. They always seem to be overly tight and have to force myself to use the…
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21 Harsh But Eye-Opening Writing Tips From Great Authors

09/27/2019

Random Posts, Writing

I like when writers state the often harsh and brutal reality about writing. It isn’t glamorous by any means, okay maybe some of it, but little. It’s hard to contain the personality and emotions involved at times. Writing is more than quotes and opinions about writing from writers but it sure is fun to read,…
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8 Writing Tips from Authors Who Won the Nobel

09/27/2019

Random Posts, Writing

These writing tips are from the website, http://www.nownovel.com. If you have time, there’s many links below you can click about writing. Writing tips from authors who won the Nobel (such as Toni Morrison and Gabriel Garcia Marquez) are often worth taking to heart. Read 8 of the best pieces of writing advice from acclaimed authors: Don’t…
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15 Grammar Goofs

09/27/2019

Random Posts, Writing

I’m not one that too often posts other people’s posts directly from their blog or from the Internet, but I thought it why not on a Friday? I sometimes find people who have never written any kind of story less qualified to tell you how you should write a book. My inner thoughts, at times,…
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Journal Entry Type #19: Seriously! Really! No Kidding!

09/20/2019

Health, Life, Writing

For the last two weeks, I’ve been out of sorts and going through the motions of work without much going on except medical crap. What I thought was a routine CT scan of my sinuses, to try to get some relief since I’ve been dealing with this what feels like forever, the radiologist wanted me…
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Book Recommendation: Description and Setting

09/16/2019

Book Recommendations, Writing

“Everybody needs a pat on the back occasionally, even if it is self-inflicted.” -Ron Rozelle- Publisher: Writer’s Digest Books Reissue Edition: March 15, 2005 (first published in January 2005) Page Number: 224 As I’m in the rewriting process of my first novel that will be done by the end of this year and self…
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Journal Entry Type #18: Fall Leaves

09/13/2019

Random Thoughts, Writing

I’ve been feeling under the weather, which is a weird phrase, because now I’m trying to picture actually being under the weather. Technically, we are as in the sun shines down on us and when it rains, we get wet. I’ve been missing the four definite seasons: fall, winter, spring, and summer. When I moved…
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Persistence is the Key to Writing, not the Money Although it Doesn’t Hurt!

09/07/2019

Random Posts, Writing

This information comes from a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and writer, William Dietrich. He wrote an article about the odds of success as a writer in 2013 for Huffington Post. He speaks of the millions of dollars writers made in 2012 (yes, I realize it is now 2019), according to Forbes, but he also talks…
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Part Writing Exercise and Part Dream

08/28/2019

Writing

The crowd got louder as those sitting closest to the entrance saw her pinchers. By the time we reached the center of the arena, most everyone was standing and chanting. “Begin the fight. Begin the fight. Begin the fight.” Once the chant died down some, the crowd began to stamp their feet in…
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Journal Entry Type #17: Back So Soon?!

08/26/2019

Random Thoughts, Writing

Okay, so as I was trying to fall asleep last night because like most of us, I have to get up and work for a living, I thought about a short story I could write, how I would change my introduction to my next novel idea, the poem I wanted to write over the weekend…
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Journal Type Entry #16: Quick Reflection of 25 Years

08/23/2019

Random Thoughts, Writing

A classmate of mine posted a picture from high school. It happens to be our 25th high school reunion this weekend. As I looked and read about everyone attending, some of them had kids already in college, some are still having kids, some didn’t want any kids (including myself), some are still married, some are…
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Journal Type Entry #15: How Can It Be August!

08/05/2019

Random Posts, Writing

It’s already the second week of August and I’m still focusing on my rewrite and life in general. I’ve been watching more movies lately and trying to catch up on my never ending list of shows in Netflix and Hulu. I’m learning to cut down on certain shows, ones that would be background noise for…
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Book Recommendation for Writers: Revision & Self-Editing and a Few Quotes about Writing by Writers

07/24/2019

Book Recommendations, Quotes, Writing

“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit-detector.” -Ernest Hemingway- Publisher: Writer’s Digest Books (2nd edition) Publication Date: May 5, 2008 Page Number: 272 I did some soul searching this last weekend and this week as well. I’m not going to lie in that I’ve struggled lately with my rewriting. …
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