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5 Things I Learned about Writing from Fishing with my Brother-in-law
Hemingway with trout. Flickr photo by Don the Upnorth Memories Guy Ernest Hemingway was known as an avid fisherman. There’s a fishing contest still running in Cuba that’s named after him. It’s been...
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9/11 – Wildest Word(s) of 2001
“World Trade Center” Flickr photo by Ralph Hockens As another anniversary of 9/11 comes and goes, and wars relating to those events rage on, I thought it would be interesting to look back at how the...
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Fail Hard! The Only Way to Get Better at Writing, Jobs, Relationships and Life
Flickr photo “FAIL STAMP” by Nima Badiey Today I want you to FAIL and fail hard. Yes, you read that right. I often say this to my students at the start of a semester. I look around the classroom at...
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Writing Prompt 09: 5 Most Mysterious Sounds Ever Recorded
The YouTube Channel Dark5 has some fascinating videos featuring “the greatest mysteries of this world and beyond…” For this week’s writing prompt I chose the 5 Most Mysterious Sounds Ever Recorded for...
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Thank you! Stories are the Wildest Things Around the World
When I check my blog’s stats, these tiny icons of the flags of the nations who have visited pop up on my screen. I’m so grateful to have readers and supporters from around the world and I wanted to...
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Julio Cortazár – Writing Quote Wednesday
Julio Cortazár Writing Quote by Paul Jenny using royalty free photo from Morguefile.com Julio Cortazár, professor, translator, boxing enthusiast, prolific novelist, playwright, poet, essayist and...
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Wildest Word of the Day – Aye!
“Why’s that clamjamfry oer there so skeerie the day an in sic a flap?” Because of the vote for Scottish independence, that’s why. As the first results begin coming in on the referendum to decide...
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Harlan Ellison – Writing Quote Wednesday
Writing Quote created by Paul Jenny using Flickr photo by Cory Doctorow I really love making these Writing Quote Wednesday posters for Stories are the Wildest Things. I get to look for images on...
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GLITCH! The Week of Breaking Down
Photo from Morguefile.com This has been a rough week. There have been GLITCHES in life that have made it difficult to get anything done. We were planning on staying home to get things done around the...
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William Wallace Cook – Writing Quote Wednesday
Writing Quote by Paul Jenny from morgueFile.com photo Also known as “the man who deforested Canada,” William Wallace Cook (see his IMDb page here) supposedly wore out 25 typewriters churning out...
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Alice Walker – Writing Quote Wednesday
Writing Quote created by Paul Jenny with Flickr photo “Run” by Satish Krishnamurthy What do you do to stay healthy as a writer? I know that mentally, I’ve done what Alice Walker has said and healed...
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The Healthy Writer – Do Nothing for Two Minutes
Photo by Paul Jenny You’re BUSY. I know. I mean, I’m surprised you’re even reading this 200 word post. Your day is filled with things to do: work, chores, kids, after-school activities, finding writing...
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Steven Pressfield – Writing Quote Wednesday
Writing Quote created by Paul Jenny from morguefile.com photo NaNoWriMo is almost upon us. Thousands of writers will be sweating out a first draft of 50K words between November 1-30, 2014. I took this...
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8 Best Selling Novels Written During NaNoWriMo
National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo as it’s affectionately called, starts in less than two weeks. I’m a past winner of this book writing frenzy. I’m proud of my stickers and certificate saying...
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6 Things You Need to Thrive During NaNoWriMo 2014
It’s coming… NaNoWriMo 2014 – that month-long frenzy of key-bashing goodness that can bring me to my knees in tears, make me mumble to myself while walking in circles, take extra-long showers, cause...
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Ksenia Anske – Writing Quote Wednesday
(Credit: Writing Quote created by Paul Jenny using Morguefile.com photo by kakisky) One of my favorite writers who engages in regularly enchanting way on Twitter is Ksenia Anske. Anske communicates...
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Shakespeare and My Birthday – Writing Quote Wednesday
(Credit: Writing Quote created by Paul Jenny using Morguefile.com photo by rosevita) Writing Quote Wednesday just happens to fall on my birthday this year. I also just happen to be rehearsing a...
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6 Questions You Need to Answer to Win NaNoWriMo
Paul wearing his NaNoWriMo writing hat. As Macbeth says, “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day.” Unless, of course, you’re doing NaNoWriMo. Then the days fly by...
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The NaNoWriMo Coffee Chocolate Correlation – please participate!
As I wrote in my earlier post, 6 Things You Need to Thrive During NaNoWriMo 2014, chocolate and coffee are the first two things on that list. I thought it would be fun to have WriMos keep track of...
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Show Me Your #WriMoFace!
Paul’s WriMo Face Day 3 and I’m behind. I had huge travel days recently. I went from Newark, Delaware to New York City, New York City to Pleasant Valley, New York. Pleasant Valley to New Paltz, NY. New...
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