Thank you, Mr. Conrad.
You’ve given me everything I needed.
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foresters
"What is your writing about?"
On New Year’s Eve, a stranger asked me this question. And although it caught me off guard, in retrospect it was actually pretty pertinent in terms of questions one should contemplate at the end of one year and the beginning of another — mostly because I didn’t have a straight answer. Of course, it didn’t
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Yes…
Sometimes, an article pops up online that is exactly what I need. A team of researchers led by Princeton University scientists has found for the first time that tropical rainforests, a vital part of the Earth’s ecosystem, rely on the rare trace element molybdenum to capture the nitrogen fertilizer needed to support their wildly productive
Hmm. Needs more fun.
I realized the other day that what I’m working on isn’t quite fun enough. Some parts of it are fun to read (I think) and (I know) some parts of it are fun to write. But in thinking so much about wordcount and moving from Point A to Point B (or in this case, Sequim
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The things that make me weak and strange get published online.
It’s been a while since I posted fiction. Since this scene will inevitably be cut (or changed significantly), you can have it:
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Things only tangentially related to the story I'm writing:
UCSB study finds physical strength, fighting ability revealed in human faces Subjects were asked to rank the physical strength or fighting ability of the people in the photographs on a scale of one to seven. When the photographs depicted men whose strength had been measured precisely on weight-lifting machines, the researchers found an almost perfect
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STC 3: Short and Long
Write a paragraph, 100-150 words, in sentences of seven words or fewer words. No sentence fragments! Each must have a subject and a verb. The result:
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STC 2: I am Garcia Marquez
Instructions Write a paragraph to a page (150-350 words) of narrative with no punctuation (and no paragraphs or other breaking devices). The result
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STC 1: Being Gorgeous
Instructions: Write a paragraph to a page (150-300 words) of narrative that’s meant to be read aloud. Use onomatopoeia, alliteration, repetition, rhythmic effects, made-up words or names, dialect — any kind of sound-effect you like — but NOT rhyme or meter. The result:
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