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Planning is good, but the planning is not the doing. Me, this morning in my morning pages. Here at the Story Factory, we value quantity over quality. More words, more hours, more stories. The goal is 52 stories at the end of the year. So far, we are on target. Which, I know, isn’t much…
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Random Acts of Writing So, my original Tuesday Tool Time post was going to be about Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way tools. But while looking through my old emails to see when I first really started with the Artist’s Way, I found my old Blogger sites. (Yeah, I know, plural. Go big or Go home.)…
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(WARNING – Nothing of meaning or importance in this post. You may just want to move on. I am just trying to check Blog Post off my list today.) I call these Monday Musings, but today it’s more of a meandering. A Mishmash of thoughts after a day of small tasks, one after another until…
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It’s Saturday, and here it is gray and cloudy as we await a storm front coming tomorrow. Not the best weather for most outdoor activities, but a great day to curl up with a good book, a cup of tea and a border collie. Here are some things I found this week: A Short Story…
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Once again, let’s take a look at one of the multitudes of writing books I have read through the years. I have plenty, so these Friday peeks at my book shelves should last a while Today’s book is probably the third writing book I have purchased. And I have purchased it numerous times after giving…
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“Fiction does not ‘make it new,’ it makes it felt.” — Matthew Salesses Here at the Story Factory, we value quantity over quality. More words, more hours, more stories. The goal is 52 stories at the end of the year. So far, we are on target. Which, I know, isn’t much to say at this…
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If it’s Tuesday, it must be Tool Time. Sadly, there is not the same alliteration en français, where it is Mardi de l’outil. Nope, not the same. But it does sound pretty, as do most things French. Today’s Tool: The World’s Best Pencil. How do I know it is the World’s Best Pencil? Glad you…
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“We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.” Martin Luther King Warning, a bit of an American political rant, as I am trying to wrap my head around what is right, what is good, and how our country is moving on. Today in the U.S. we…