{"id":830,"date":"2011-02-03T19:39:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T00:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=830"},"modified":"2011-08-31T06:15:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T10:15:10","slug":"a-daily-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"A Daily Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"

My decision to write one sentence a day got me writing again.\u00a0 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 important part of the process.\u00a0 On August 28, 2009 I wrote my first Daily Sentence, which became the trick I pulled to lure me back to the workshop, and posted it on a Google Site I called (no surprise here) The Life Literary<\/em>.\u00a0 I shared the site with a small group of confidantes to give my decision some oomph.<\/p>\n

I started a Daily Sentence in that first The Life Literary<\/em>, looking for a way to make a public commitment to write (even a little bit) daily.\u00a0 My goal was to give myself a forum to write one good sentence a day and it worked.\u00a0 I only had to write one sentence a day.\u00a0 I could have written a paragraph, an essay, or even a novel if I’d wanted.\u00a0 All I promised myself, however, was a sentence.\u00a0 And, the extent of the public I invited to read these sentences was my immediate family and a handful of nephews: friendly but real accountability.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one thing to say, “Yeah, I\u2019d like to write something,” and another to actually do it.\u00a0 I suggest a Daily Sentence as a way to get started.\u00a0 Just one sentence and you\u2019re done.\u00a0 It\u2019s a potentially easy way to add a bit of active literary living to your life.
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\nThat Google site, by the way, has become a valued word storage facility.\u00a0 Shelves stacked with a year and a half’s worth of fresh sentences, paragraphs, essays, poems and story ideas.\u00a0 It also became the central place I kept anything I wrote in the past.\u00a0 It’s nice to have somewhere I can go to pull items off the shelf to publish here either fully formed or as just the germ of an idea.\u00a0 I also still use it for new things I’m writing now,that are not quite ready for worldwide release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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