Tag: writing
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two hundred and fifty
There are many ways to approach a problem, but by far my steady go-to approach has long been incrementalism. A little over a year ago I started writing a novel. This is actually a complex and confusing anecdote about sitting down to write a trilogy of novels, nearly finishing the first one, deciding that it…
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genuine
The temptation felt by the potential of a blank page as I sit down to type these words each time I post is sometimes bigger than I can explain. We all want to be more than we are, don’t we? I see this blank page in front of me and I yearn to manifest some…
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sum total words
You have a finite number of words in you. Oh, sure, that finite number may be huge. But it is finite. And there is absolute truth in the notion that every word you say or write removes from the remining tally one more word and brings you one word closer to the sum total of…
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those words
The whole point of this life I’ve drafted for myself, or so it seems to me more and more each day, is to simply get words onto paper. That is why I am here. That is why I am jabbing the creativity fork into the idea wall socket and hoping for a spark. (Do not…