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Anne Lamott – Writing Quote Wednesday
Anyone else having trouble just writing and not editing as you go? I tend to go back and start fixing things right away, because I can’t seem to let the words just sit there on the page. I feel like I...
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K.L. Cook – Writing Quote Wednesday
Writing Quote created by Paul Jenny using Morguefile.com photo by keencarlene.
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Amanda Palmer – Writing Quote Wednesday
(Credit: Writing Quote created by Paul Jenny using Morguefile.com photo by GaborfromHungary) Amanda Palmer’s new book “The Art of Asking” is now available on Amazon. It seems she got caught up in the...
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Neil Gaiman – Writing Quote Wednesday
(Credit: Writing Quote created by Paul Jenny using Flickr photo by Clinton Steeds) As I was driving to Home Depot to buy a piece of plywood for my brother-in-law’s Thanksgiving table, the name Jack...
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Junot Diaz – Writing Quote Wednesday
(Credit: Writing Quote created by Paul Jenny from Flickr photo by Bryan Ledgard) Junot Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award winner for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao....
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Give it All, Give it Now
I missed Writing Quote Wednesday this week, so I wanted to make up for it with this quote from Annie Dillard: “Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it,...
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T.S. Eliot – Writing Quote Wednesday
(Credit: Writing Quote created by Paul Jenny using photo by kconnor) As I’m writing this post, my family is downstairs preparing to celebrate the New Year by watching the festivities in New York City....
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2015 Very Inspiring Blogger Award…Paying it Forward
I’m delighted to start 2015 off with a big thank you to Joseph at A Cup of Joe for nominating me for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award! One of my resolutions (and you know how I feel about those) is to...
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Je Suis Charlie – Writing Quote Wednesday
“Today’s effort to silence criticism by murdering the artists and writers who voice it must be met with a far wider movement to defend the right to dissent, which forms the spine of free expression.”...
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2014 in review – Thank you!
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,800 times in 2014....
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Harper Lee – Writing Quote Wednesday
(Credit: Writing Quote created by Paul Jenny using Flickr photo by crowbot) The recent news that Harper Lee will be publishing a sequel to her 1961 Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel To Kill a...
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Colporteur – Wildest Word of the Day
(Credit: Flickr photo by Dominique Chappard) I stumbled across this wild word today on a random search down an internet rabbit hole. A colporteur is someone who goes from place to place peddling...
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Lu Ji – Writing Quote Wednesday
(Credit: Writing Quote created by Paul Jenny with Flickr photo by Trey Ratcliff) This poem comes from Lu Ji’s famous work, The Art of Writing (Wen Fu, 文賦). According to Wikipedia, it has been called a...
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Writing Prompt 10: Dystopian Mall
(Credit: ©Seph Lawless) I’m working from the Hudson Valley Mall in Kingston, NY today. I’m sitting outside Dick’s Sporting Goods (free WiFi!) in one of those massaging chairs that make you look...
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Be a Straight Shooter – Use Straightforward Dialogue Tags
(Credit: Morguefile photo by lightfoot) “You’re in big trouble, Dastardly Dan. You stole my prize bull,” Cowboy Carl blurted. “I did not,” Dastardly Dan babbled. “You did, too,” Cowboy Carl objected....
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Five Things I Learned About Writing from Being an IT Cable Tech
I’m covered in drywall dust. It’s in my hair, my eyes, the creases of my skin. My blue jeans are cloudy white from all the dust covering them. As I walk, little puffs of drywall dust, fall from my...
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The Battle Within – Which Wolf Will You Feed?
On this Sunday after that irrational holiday, Pi Day, here’s a short film to think about as you begin the new week. As we ate pie yesterday and today I thought about that old proverb that states there...
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How To Write & Publish a #1 Bestselling Children’s Book to Amazon in a...
The title of this post was the promise made by a recent free webinar I did recently. One of the people responsible for the “Chicken Soup for the (fill in profitable niche group here) Soul” publishers...
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WordPress Anniversary – One Year Later!
This is wild. It’s my one year anniversary on WordPress and it’s been an amazing year of change and growth. I wanted to take a moment to say, “Thank You!” to everyone who follows and reads Stories are...
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Rainy Days and Mondays
©2015 Paul Jenny I’m a big fan of petrichor, that smell of rain after a period of dry weather. I also like Mondays. They are the beginning of a week filled with so many possibilities. So, rainy Mondays...
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