November 2008

Be Thankful for the Writers who inspire you.
Be Thankful for the Readers who make it all worth while.
Be Thankful for the Computer which connects you.
Be Thankful for the Pen which lets your thoughts out.
Be Thankful for the Journal which keeps your thoughts private.
Be Thankful for the Love for Words and Paper.
Be Thankful for Friends who [...]

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How do you work? Or, do anything, really?
Do you focus on one thing? Or do you multi-task?
Clearly, there are advantages to each.
When you focus on one thing, you get done faster. It’s like running a race with your eyes on the finish line–no room for any thought except getting there as quickly as possible. No [...]

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Hmm … you know you’ve been writing too long when a headline that reads, “Cougar Attacks Teen Girl Who Got into its Pen” makes you wonder, Why did the cougar have a pen? And what was it writing? And who was it writing to?

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(Continued from last week.)
So–the “great” and “grand” thing first.
First, there are parents and children. When you go one generation “out” from that, you’ve got Grandparents and Grandchildren. (Just like you called your parents’ parents Grandma and Grandpa, your children will call your parents that…. give or take a grandparental nickname or two.)
The next [...]

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So–there are lots of reasons to write. We’ve discussed this–there’s the whole, making-a-living thing. There’s the helping-yourself-think thing. There’s the I-have-no-choice thing. Right. We get that.
But then there are writers who write because they want to, they’re driven, they’re inspired.
So inspired, perhaps, that they try to write an entire novel in a month. (Sound familiar, [...]

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Quick–if your grandfather’s sister’s son has a grandson … what relation is he to you? To your grandfather?
Raise your hands if you’ve ever been confused when someone referred to your “first cousin once removed on your mother’s side.”
I thought so.
So–let’s clarify this shall we?
The basics are simple–grandparents, aunts, uncles, parents, siblings, cousins. You probably don’t [...]

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So, Joanna wants all of us to Shine and live up to our fabulous potential.
(Because, you DO know that we all have fabulous potential, don’t you? The rest of this post will be fairly pointless if you don’t believe that, in which case, why don’t you go sit over there in that little chair off [...]

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Okay … birthday cake for everybody!

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You’ve seen the milk ads, right? “Got Milk?
Have you noticed that there’s no “subject” to that sentence?
Two words– a verb “Got” and a noun which is the object of the sentence, “Milk”–but neither of which is the subject of the sentence.
That, of course is “You.” As in, “Have you got milk?”
The very simple explanation for [...]

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