Tag: writing tips
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What is your writing goal for today?
Is it determined by time? Is it determined by word count? Are you trying to do a little more than yesterday – or more than last week? Are you keeping track of a larger goal to reach by a later point? No matter how you break down your goals, it’s…
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Writers: How To Reach Your Word Count Goals This Month
It’s here – November! An entire new month, or an entire new chance to reset your goals from the month before if you didn’t quite meet them. Maybe you weren’t even halfway to achieving your last month’s goal because it just seemed so overwhelming. If your aspiration is to be…
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“Shreds of Sanity” & Author Tip
It clung to her with a vengeance like a vile creature from hell. Her ears rang with the shrieking, a maddened sound that grew with fury. Clutching her head, she could feel it digging into her brain, little more than a leech determined to prey upon her last shreds of…
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I wonder at the sea.
Sometimes, I stare at the sea and I wonder. I wonder how the stars look from just below the surface. I wonder whether the sea can feel sad. The sea will never kiss the stars, no matter how much their light is reflected in its skin. The sea knows the…
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Writing Exercise: Start With A Picture
The island was on a sea of glass, water so still that the skeletal trees were a near perfect reflection as they stretched across the water. A shadow of blackened limbs against a medley of purples and orange, the mass of trees called to them, a haunting reminder of what…
VICKI SWEETS 