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Category Archives: Writing
Keep a Calendar Journal– Part 2
Keep a Calendar Journal Part 1 So why would someone want to keep a journal on a calendar, writing a sentence a day for two, four, five or even seven days a week? Here are a few reasons: 1. At … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Sentence, Writing
Tagged calendar, creatively write, journal, Writing
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Keep a Calendar Journal – Part 1
Listen up! This idea is a winner, a very doable and fun way to add a few thoughtful words to your life. It’s easy. I’m adding this to all the other word things I am already doing in 2012. You could … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Sentence, Writing
Tagged calendar, daily sentence, journal, not stationary, stationery
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Words Feed the Quiet
The article “The Joy of Quiet,” published recently in the New York Times, expresses at least a part of why I write, why I promote an active and thoughtful involvement with words, and why I collect ideas for how anybody can incorporate words into life. … Continue reading
Posted in Living Literarily, Writing
Tagged attentive, deep, healthy, peace, quiet, stillness, Writing
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Do You Talk to Yourself? Write it Down!
Do you talk to yourself? Write it down. Carry a small notebook with you wherever you go so you can be your own secretary, taking down the notes, the words, the ideas you are speaking in your own mind. Sitting … Continue reading
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Tagged emotional health, health, journal, Writing
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Writers In The Mist – Dr. Argyle Schield’s Field Notes, Part 2
Here is the second part of Dr. Schield’s tweeted field notes recording his observations of writer’s in their natural habitat. (Writers In The Mist Introduction) (Writers In The Mist – Field Notes Part 1) WITM: I want to communicate with … Continue reading
Writers In The Mist – Dr. Argyle Schield’s Field Notes, Part 1
Throughout the month of November while I was frantically noveling, raking up words by the bushel and bagging them in a thumb drive, I mostly blogged items I had prepared before November began, being too busy with the book to bother with the blog. Imagine my … Continue reading
Writers In The Mist
Literary Lee feels privileged and lucky. So should all the many The Life Literary readers. Here’s why: The noted scribologist (one who studies the habits of writers) Argyle Schield has agreed to share his field notes, scribbled hastily in his … Continue reading
The Synopsis of the Novel I’m Going to Write in November (and a Few Thoughts About its Impending Birth)
Reflecting on Being Heavy with Novel What’s happening to me? I am pregnant with a novel. I feel it growing, swelling inside my literary belly. In the last few days it has even started to kick. I only dreamed I … Continue reading
Hastening Slowly Through Fall
Forgive my bragging a little, but one reason I enjoy reading Verlyn Klinkenborg’s editorials in the New York Times in a series called “The Country Life,” is that his take on life, his appreciation for growing things, and how he writes about it … Continue reading
A Weighty Presence I Cherish
I read this in a Wall Street Journal article a few weeks ago: President Barack Obama sent trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama to Congress on Monday, capping months of tense negotiations and setting the stage for a heated … Continue reading