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Five Writing Tasks For May – Task 3: Share Your Plan With Others

05.09.2012 Art

Writers and artists need the help of others, especially those who are skilled, gifted, and practiced in criticism. Working with other writers and supporting each other is a remarkably powerful way to become a better writer. It’s often much easier to see a problem in someone else’s performance, but even when you’ve identified your own [...]

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Five Writing Tasks For May – Task 2: Create A Lesson Plan

05.08.2012 Art

Once you’ve completed the first task, identifying a specific writing weakness, it’s time to move on. The next step will be to create a lesson plan for yourself to help eliminate this specific weakness or strengthen your skills. Before you start to create a plan, ask this simple question: Has someone already solved this problem? [...]

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Five Writing Tasks For May – Task 1: Identify A Writing Weakness

05.07.2012 Art

Writers, artists, and craftsmen of all sorts (and genders) work and refine their skills on a daily basis. This week I’ll present you with five tasks, all designed at helping you work on and develop your writing skills. Task 1: Identify A Writing Weakness Task 2: Create A Lesson Plan Task 3: Share Your Plan [...]

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Writing Assignment: Write A “What If?”

05.04.2012 Books and Literature

Life, history, is a continual stream of choices and events. History may not be just “one damn thing after another.” I think it’s closer to “the story of things that almost didn’t happen.” These things that happened and didn’t happen are an exceptionally fertile playground for writers. I’m a fan of science fiction and the [...]

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Not No, But Not Right Now

05.02.2012 GTD

Ideas come by the bushel basket load around here, but really great ideas are still rare. That’s why it’s so painful and difficult to say, “No.” Why say no? Because I have other great ideas in play and actively being worked on. If I say yes to something else, everything will suffer. But I’m not [...]

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