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How to Be an Author: THINK LIKE A READER
For the past two weeks I’ve been sick with what the doctor called walking pneumonia. Between the wheezing, coughing and attempting to catch my breath, I haven’t been doing too much walking. It’s also difficult to concentrate, when your body gyrates from the explosive convulsion of impacted lungs. Without concentration, I’ve found my ability to write has been limited to blogging twice a week and attempting to write a few words in my journal each day. My journal is for my eyes only (Believe me, there’s nothing there you’d want to see.). As the title above suggests and as I’ve written about previously, it is important for writers to be…
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How to be an Author: KEEP GOING
One thing every writer does on a daily basis is write and read. We write because we were born to write. Yes, we’re compelled to do it. It’s innate, like Springsteen’s rebel who was Born to Run. There’s no getting away from it. When a writer is not writing he, she, or whatever gender identification or non-identification thinks about writing. Almost all writers reflect elements, styles, techniques, characteristics, attributes, permutations and imitations garnered from other writers. While a conscious effort may arise as a way of expressing appreciation or admiration for a certain writer, more often any similarities come from the subconscious mind. This occurs because, like the audience for…