Most people loved the Ego Room, but Derrick was not happy about being there. Not happy at all. It was his birthday, his fifteenth. He should have been able to say no to a gift. Instead, his mom had made him come, saying that turning down a gift was rude, and she had already paid […]
I wrote in a previous post about how my blog has recently undergone an identity crisis. So far in my blog I have written mostly about writing. But my need to write about writing was starting to wind down as early as the Christmas holidays, and I wondered what I could focus on instead. I
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“They all look alike now. I wish things could be the way they were.” “What do you mean?” “The clouds, Paul. They all look the same. I used to see things in them: horses, birds. But now, nothing.” “So what is the problem? Jeez, let a cloud be a cloud, Sara. Just consider yourself lucky
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Write what you love, not what you think others will like. The spirit of those words is the wellspring of originality and the way to have fun with the creative process. It dug me out of a severe case of block and got me to the end of my novel. But once I started querying,
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