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Writers’ Workshop: What Kind Of Writer Are You?

12.29.2011 writing

This week I’m conducting an online writers’ workshop. The goal is to help you dramatically improve your writing skills. Today you’ll be challenged with a reflective exercise. I’d like you to explore what kind of writer you think you are. Start with a basic declarative statement. You may find that you need to say it [...]

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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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Writers’ Workshop: Rewrite A News Story

12.27.2011 writing

This week I’m conducting an online writers’ workshop. The goal is to help you dramatically improve your writing skills. Today: rewrite a news story. Pick any news story of at least one hundred words and rewrite it. Good news writing is clear and concise. Rewriting something fairly well written is difficult. It will challenge you [...]

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Writers’ Workshop: Give Me Twenty

12.26.2011 writing

This week I’m conducting an online writers’ workshop. The goal is to help you dramatically improve your writing skills. Today: Give Me Twenty. For this workshop exercise, pick any previous Writing Assignment from the Writing Assignments book or this online list. Complete the assignment you’ve selected. Then repeat until you’ve completed it twenty times. The [...]

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No Time To Write Equals No Time To Think

11.03.2011 blogging

There are times when I get very busy and I simply don’t take time to write. Times, like when I’m traveling, or others when I don’t feel good. And I’ve found that after these intervals, when I do sit down to write, I almost immediately feel better, refreshed and more alert. Why is that? I [...]

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