Showing posts with label writer's block. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writer's block. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Lazy, hazy days of summer

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 I laughed when I read the last few posts by my blog mates, something I always do when I'm searching for a topic. After many years on th...
Friday, July 15, 2022

Living with Writer's Block

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 I've been trying for months to finish a 4,000-5,000 word essay for a special journal issue on Edgar Allan Poe and his impact on mystery...
Thursday, June 09, 2022

Random Thoughts on Writing

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I (Donis) have been doing my best to write over the past months - though it's hard to concentrate these days. I'd plead that I'v...
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Monday, January 17, 2022

Writing is just a job, let's not get dramatic

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When does being creative become a job? I'm presuming that everyone who dips into these pages is either actively involved or actively int...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Untangling a plot

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It's Tuesday evening and I'm sitting on my dock in my Muskoka chair with a glass of wine, trying to write this blog. The scene is id...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

Suspended Animation

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As we near the end of pandemic isolation, I feel my life is in suspended animation. Like many others, I am having trouble organizing my thou...
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Thursday, October 05, 2017

Pray for Rain

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A few images from Oklahoma Donis here...more or less. I never really believed in writer's block. Anybody can write something if she...
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Saturday, September 23, 2017

Follow Your Heroes

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Once in a while, I get asked to speak to young people about writing as a profession. When the time comes to offer career advice, I ask them,...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Confronting that vast empty space

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Hah! It worked. Barbara here, and actually on time for my Wednesday Type M blog post. Two weeks ago I posted that I was always forgetting be...
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Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Vampires

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by Rick Blechta No, I’m not thinking of switching to the horror genre, nor trying my hand at penning a YA novel (although I have always ...