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Tag Archives: Writing
A Daily Sentence
My decision to write one sentence a day got me writing again. There was more to it than that, but breaking down the large (or at least, to me large-seeming) task of Regular Writing into very small pieces was an … Continue reading
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Tagged daily sentence, Living Literarily, sentence, Writing
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How to Use The Life Literary
In this blog I discuss and model ways to shake a dash of literary on your life. (Or serve yourself a thick slab, if you’d like). I call it living literarily. There are a couple of ways to use and enjoy The Life Literary. 1. You … Continue reading
Writing: Floodgates of the Soul
Input and Output Writing is a cornerstone of literary living. I love reading a story, memorizing a poem, or watching a good movie. These expand and fill me, my heart, my mind, my soul, and provide valuable raw material for growing, maturing, … Continue reading
A Blizzard is Coming
Usually, I will try to vary what I write from day to day in The Life Literary. This being Burns Supper crunch-time, I’m afraid an even heavier Burns-ish storm than what’s already blown in this week is going to hit … Continue reading
This Is Not The All Things Scottish Blog
The Life Literary will be about much more than Robert Burns, haggis and kilts. It will be (and even this Burns-tide, is) about living literarily. I will write about and model many ways to do that in the coming weeks … Continue reading
Public Proofreading
Amazing to read what I thought were carefully drafted essays “published” online, to see how much editing they still need. Maybe good re-writing requires reading text in another context, like from screen to hard copy or blog composing box to … Continue reading
About The Life Literary
What’s All This About? The Life Literary is my workshop for word play and use. It’s also where I note ways to live literarily. Here I write, record, comment, list. And play. Walk around a workshop. Find sawdust piles, half-finished … Continue reading
The Five Dollar Christmas Deal
(Our Christmas 2007 letter) December 2007 The Five Dollar Christmas Deal It’s 6 a.m. on a cold, December Saturday morning and I’m fixing coffee and oatmeal. I still find it hard to believe my wife is in Bali, Indonesia. I … Continue reading
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Good Ole Fashioned Linear Thinking
(If possible, I edit and re-read every bit of communication, every email and letter I send. Even trivial or routine emails, to my my wife, my children, my parents, a friend, I go over, trying to tighten the language, fix … Continue reading
Pen to paper
The first step: pen to paper. Even if it’s lousy (because it might not be). Write it down. Get started.