Category: About writing
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Show-Don’t-Tell Is Bullshit!
Read more: Show-Don’t-Tell Is Bullshit!“Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.” — Ernest Hemingway 1. LIMIT Show-don’t-tell is bullshit. Now, before a lynch mob of angry keyboard warriors attempts to verbally slay me, let’s all calm down and establish a context.
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Writer’s Block Doesn’t Exist – Part 5: Death of Ideas
Read more: Writer’s Block Doesn’t Exist – Part 5: Death of Ideas“Your head’s like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we…
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Rupi Kaur’s poetry in the age of social media
Read more: Rupi Kaur’s poetry in the age of social mediaYou might already have heard of her through Instagram or Tumblr, or maybe you’ve seen her book lying beside all of the other ‘cool’ books in the book section of the Urban Outfitter’s store. Rupi Kaur is a Canadian author, feminist activist and illustrator in her twenties who has published two books of poetry accompanied…
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Writer’s Block Doesn’t Exist – Part 2: Inspired by Spirit
Read more: Writer’s Block Doesn’t Exist – Part 2: Inspired by Spirit“[S]topping a piece of work just because it’s hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes you’re doing good work when it feels like all you’re managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.” — Stephen King 0.…
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Writer’s Block Doesn’t Exist – Part 1: Why I Write
Read more: Writer’s Block Doesn’t Exist – Part 1: Why I Write“First there is no idea. Then there is the flickering of an idea. Then there is a fully realized idea. And then finally we have a physical artifact which we can hold in our hands. We have a book. We have a painting. This, to me, is a magical act. Any act of creation…
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