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Roy Peter Clark’s Special Effects: “When the topic is most serious, understate; when least serious, exaggerate.”

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If you write fiction, a challenge your challenge is to give each character its own personality. This is particularly difficult to do on paper, and it takes a careful eye to make men and women believable.
This evening, we received news that a friend’s son had been taken to the hospital because of the injury. My [...]

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Despite new technology threatening to replace the book these literary oddities prove that books are here to stay.

Tolstoy’s Lesson on How to Change the World

I’ve thought back at that moment in my life often, especially during those times when I haven’t accomplished anything BIG. As I lurk closer to forty years old, the most important lesson I’m trying to learn is what Tolstoy had already figured out.

Sleep: A Writer’s Best Friend

According to the Huffington Post (and other, more scientific sources), sleep can be the best companion a writer can ask for. Instead of editorializing the editorial, why don’t I just send you over to the article. Besides…it’s late and I’m tired.

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Roy Peter Clark’s Special Effects: “When the topic is most serious, understate; when least serious, exaggerate.”

If you write fiction, a challenge your challenge is to give each character its own personality. This is particularly difficult to do on paper, and it takes a careful eye to make men and women believable.
This evening, we received news that a friend’s son had been taken to the hospital because of the injury. My [...]

Despite new technology threatening to replace the book these literary oddities prove that books are here to stay.

I’ve thought back at that moment in my life often, especially during those times when I haven’t accomplished anything BIG. As I lurk closer to forty years old, the most important lesson I’m trying to learn is what Tolstoy had already figured out.

According to the Huffington Post (and other, more scientific sources), sleep can be the best companion a writer can ask for. Instead of editorializing the editorial, why don’t I just send you over to the article. Besides…it’s late and I’m tired.