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D.It may seem abnormal that writing about negative experiences has a positive effect.E.Once you have a better handle on your problems, you can move forward and get on with life.F.It is writing from your heart and mind and about the emotion associated with a certain event.G.Let your ...
Scott Adams, most known for his cartoon stripDilbert, used real-life experiences from his job as inspiration for his work. Charles Bukowski wrote a novel loosely based on his own experiences as a post office employee. Even mundane jobs like these can inspire you to write something interesting ...
Nevertalk about what you’re currently writing. Talk about what you’ve already written if you must. Ideally, unless you need to be flogging your “platform” and self-promoting, don’t talk about your writing at all. Put it out there and let others talk about how great or horrible you...
Personal experiences are the tapestry of our lives, woven together by moments that define who we are and how we perceive the world. Capturing these moments and turning them into compelling narratives is an art, one thathave mastered. At the heart of this craft lies the ability to convey emot...
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“How to Write This or That Aspect of a Novel” manuals. Those are important and my library is full of them. But how-to manuals only offer up a part of the picture. The rest of the education is within each of us, an amalgamation of our life experiences and what we have learned ...
The publishing industry doesn’t have blogs that talk about this because you can’t monetize inner work. Even writers, so adept with words and images, can’t explain it, aren’t sure it’s real, and wonder whether they’re simply distracted when they have creative inner experiences. They ...
“Memento” is a film about a man who can’t form permanent memories because of a traumatic incident that included the death of his wife. By showing only what he experiences and moving backwards, the movie captures what it’s like to be this man and shows us at the same time what is...
Bradbury’s warning here is to enjoy where you were in life, be you child, middle-aged, or elderly. Being the older-than-the-average parent to a child still in his single digits weighs heavy on those 3am wakeups. At the same time I think of all the experiences yet to come and ...