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Writing Is a Performance, and the Show Must Go On
Originally posted on Meg Dowell Writes: Even if you’d rather go to the dentist every day for the rest of your life than listen to even three minutes of electric violin music, it’s hard to deny that Lindsey Stirling’s rise to stardom is one of the most inspirational modern success stories a creator can draw…
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Colleen’s Weekly Tanka Challenge-Haigu-The Shadow-Traci Kenworth
the face The Shadow Traci Kenworth Indistinct, The shadow awaits. In a flash, Moonlight brushes it. Both beauty And death’s haunting face. Unstable, It rushes the room. One more prey, Merges evermore.
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Ideas For Keeping Your Blog Fresh
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis: Struggling for blog ideas? Photo by Tirachard Kumtanom // CC0 1.0 Blogging consistently for days and years takes its toll. The mind struggles to generate ideas strong enough to keep the blog fresh. Over time, even a well-intentioned blogger who makes a fair effort to achieve success will fall prey to…
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Writerly Things 8/12/19: The Benefits of Not Counting Words Traci Kenworth
Writerly Things 8/12/19: The Benefits of Not Counting Words Traci Kenworth I stopped counting words about a year back. To be honest, it’s freeing and helps boost my creativity. Not that I don’t put the work in. I find pressuring myself to reach a thousand to two thousand or more limit stressful. Instead, I count…
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#FineArtFriday: the Monarch of the Beach, Haystack Rock
Originally posted on Life in the Realm of Fantasy: Today I am offering you two images instead of one. The first image was found on Wikimedia Commons, taken in 2013 on a spring day in Cannon Beach Oregon. It is a wonderful shot of what I think of as the Monarch of the Beach, the…
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Get More Done By Giving Yourself Less Time
You’ve probably heard Parkinson’s Law articulated, even if you didn’t know its name. It was formulated by C. Northcote Parkinson, one of those appellations whose authoritative grandeur makes you stand at attention. He was actually an English naval historian and novelist, and quite prolific. So it must have been with some consternation that his most…