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Writing Assignment: The Writer’s Life For Me

04.06.2012 writing

It’s easy to say, “I want to be a writer because I have something to say.” It’s much less easy to claim, “I want to live like a writer.” Not a rich and famous writer. A working writer. That means spending hours, every day, alone. It means watching more than participating. It means making endless [...]

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The Writer’s Life: Courage

04.05.2012 blogging

Even in these economically difficult times, it is easier to take a job, to work in an office or factory and to collect a paycheck, than it is to pursue the much more difficult path of living as an artist. Becoming an artist, a writer, is a courageous thing. You can’t be realistic and be [...]

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The Writer’s Life: Thinking

04.04.2012 blogging

Thinking is hard work. I’m not talking about the randomized stream of consciousness that some call thought. I’m talking about considered, ordered thinking. That’s exceptionally hard to do. Frankly, I can only do that on paper or at the keyboard. As a writer I am practiced at making notes, but also at the art of [...]

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The Writer’s Life: Observation

04.03.2012 blogging

It is all too easy to move about in the world and see absolutely nothing of it. The writer must learn how to be in the world and also separate from it. Can you go somewhere, anywhere, and watch, be comfortable in watching? It is more difficult than you think. We humans are animals, and [...]

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The Writer’s Life: Solitude

04.02.2012 Jobs & Working

While I can write pretty much anywhere, I do my best work, produce my best writing, when I’m alone. Spending hours alone, every day, has become a part of my life. In some ways it’s a great luxury, having time and no one about to distract me, alter my mood, or to ask things of [...]

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