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No MFA. No Worries.
To MFA or not to MFA. That has occupied my mind since learning of the MFA as a young writer and undergrad. To me, the MFA had always held...
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Apr 19, 20177 min read
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#10. Passionate Love
No one loves your writing more than you do. You do not hate your writing, or even better, you are not agnostic towards your writing....
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Apr 15, 20172 min read
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#9. Books
If you do not read you have no business writing. Josef Miyasato A Parable Once there was a girl who loved to talk or blog. She could talk...
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Apr 13, 20173 min read
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#8. Another Writer’s Advice
You are a writer. You are remarkably insightful. Sometimes you are, even, brilliant. You can write better prose than anyone. You are a...
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Apr 12, 20173 min read
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#7. Scheduled Pragmatism
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”– Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft...
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Mar 30, 20173 min read
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#6. Beliefs
Words are not words. They are sound. Sound is not sound. It is meaning. Meaning is not meaning. It is idea. Ideas are not ideas. They are...
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Mar 27, 20173 min read
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The Better Fruit of Rejection
Oh, rejection. It’s a shriveled orange. It’s the spider inside the banana. It’s a human’s lot and a writer’s eighty-acre wood. And if...
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Mar 14, 20174 min read
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#3A The Writer’s Heirarchy of Reasons
“Who Are You To Write This Book?” – The Evil Dr. Who-M You are writing this book because you want to. You are writing this book because...
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Jan 9, 20163 min read
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#3 Clear Vision
What do you have to say? Why do you have to say it? This can be daunting, maybe not for all but for most. For as long as there have been...
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Jan 9, 20161 min read
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#2 Persistence. Tenacity. Perseverance.
If you are not in this for the long haul then you will break before you get there. You might break before anyway. Can you write through...
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Dec 31, 20153 min read
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10 Traits of Any Writer Worth Their Salt
Faith. This is the first principle of writing. The page is blank. Can you fill it up? Can you fill it up with something worthy of space...
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Dec 23, 20152 min read
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