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Writers’ Workshop: Three Hundred Words

12.28.2011 Uncategorized

This week I’m conducting an online writers’ workshop. The goal is to help you dramatically improve your writing skills. Today: three hundred words. Three hundred words of eleven point type will fit on one eight and a half by eleven piece of paper. They can also be a challenge, especially when you’re working from an [...]

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Writing Assignment: What’s For Dinner?

11.04.2011 Uncategorized

People often tell me, “I don’t know what to write about!” This comes from not writing often. If you write daily, ideas will come to you. You won’t be able to stop the ideas that bubble up. When people ask you “where do you get your ideas,” you’ll tell them, “I don’t know, they just [...]

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Writing Assignment: A Single Leaf

10.21.2011 Uncategorized

It’s fall here in central Ohio. My yard is suddenly covered in leaves. The air is full of them, whispering as they shower down in the breeze. The temperature dipped a couple of weeks ago, but it’s warm today, even hot. But the leaves are still falling and soon there will be snow on the [...]

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Buttermilk

05.26.2011 Uncategorized

I love to drink buttermilk. For all that I know I may be the only one left. I don’t drink it often. It’s not something we keep in the fridge unless there’s baking to do. And when I do drink it, it’s only a few sips. But there’s nothing finer than standing at the counter, [...]

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Writing Assignment: Pen, Paper, and Five Minutes

04.15.2011 Uncategorized

Sometimes it is easier to write when you have a very short period of time, a firm deadline, and a clear assignment. Boundaries help to provide focus, eliminate distraction, and if time based, create a sense of urgency that often overrides fears and uncertainty. Many who write professionally accept deadlines as a matter of course. [...]

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