By Michelle: When you find yourself struggling with writer’s block, try one of these writing prompts. The goal is to jump-start your writing engine so that you can begin writing your book or story. Remember to favor the concrete over the abstract, and to let your mind go where it may. Choose one a day, [...]
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The vocabulary of ethnicity identity is fraught with peril. It is unfortunate that humans must at times distinguish between various subgroups, but it’s best to keep up-to-date on which descriptions are considered valid or acceptable among those belonging to those populations. Here’s a guide: 1. African A person of African descent. Some people so described [...]
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Today I offer the second in an occasional series of articles aimed at helping you overcome writers block. This involves personal memories and as such will be different for each of us. Do you have what I call a memory box? Photographs of the children when they were growing up, a marriage photograph, perhaps a [...]
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Ask any writer and they’ll tell you that at some time or another they suffer that almost fatal illness – writers block. Over the next two days I’m going to offer some suggestions as to how you might defeat writers block. Think of the tips as a sort of antibiotic! Write about something that you [...]
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There are two types of feeling connected to writing: tone and mood. Tone is what the author feels, mood is what the reader feels. Today I want to look at feeling from the authors perspective. To understand what type of feeling you are trying to evoke ask yourself the following questions. Why am I writing [...]
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