Branching out with my writing
1. “I found out who your father is…”
2. Dirty looks was her specialty…
3. “Just make up with your mother and all will be fine.”
4. There is no earthly way she should have known that…
5. “How’s he doing?”
“How do you think after what you said to him?”
Totally unrelated to writing, I admit. Just had to include the neighborhood bear’s take on our current state of panic.
For some of us, though, it might be another reason to stay home and put in a few more words than usual.
Some Mary Oliver resources:
http://thedailyinspirations.com/documents/mary_oliver.html
https://inspirationfeed.com/mary-oliver-quotes/
This quote from William Zinsser [On Writing Well is his best-known work.] takes an opposite tack to yesterday’s Writing With No Direction post.
Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn’t the writing; it’s the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?
WILLIAM ZINSSER
Curated from my daily email from Jon Winokur’s https://advicetowriters.com/
This snappy piece by David Ben-Ami really speaks to the value of Julia Cameron’s ‘morning pages’. (Dropping two names in one sentence. Have I no shame?)
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