Writing

admin on March 3rd, 2013

With a mere eight weeks to assist them in extracting their stories from their memories and sharing them both on paper and aloud with the class, we start writing on the very first day. I remind them that this isn’t a theory class, but a writing class, so having them listen to me speak does no good without putting what is discussed during the lecture into practice.

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admin on January 29th, 2013

It blows my mind when I meet someone who doesn’t know – or care – about the proper use of an apostrophe (possessive, NOT plural!), but can recite the rules for dividing fractions without breaking a sweat.

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admin on November 17th, 2012

Do you have a certain word that you would consider to be a favorite? Maybe it’s one that you use often, or one that sounds cool and you’d like to use more often, or one that people hear and say, “hey, that’s Beth’s word!” I have a few words that I try to sprinkle into [...]

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admin on October 9th, 2012

Fun is not so much a dictionary definition as a personal one. What one considers “fun” might be torture to another.

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admin on August 14th, 2012

my Boot Camp instructor, Stacy Ward, handed me a yellow wrist band etched with the words, “I Can Do This,” with the advice to glance at it each time I felt my resolve starting to melt. I put it on my left wrist, the side I’d be looking at as one of the left-side paddlers.

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admin on May 29th, 2012

Another word that bothers me is “should.” I know it shouldn’t, but it does. When someone tells me I should do something, it rubs me wrong.

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admin on April 10th, 2012

Those two seemingly innocuous words are so powerful in the mind of a writer. “What if” becomes the stuff of great stories.

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Sometimes it’s hard to write. There are so many things going on around us, trying their darnedest to pull us away from our writing projects – kids, laundry, the phone…

Enjoy these Words of Encouragement brought to you by WritersRelief.com

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admin on December 12th, 2011

Perhaps it’s the idea of writer’s block that causes that momentary panic, which morphs into something that renders us unable to conjure a thought, complete an assignment, even hunt-and-peck a simple sentence about our chosen topic.

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admin on November 29th, 2011

Whether you agree or disagree with the commercialization of the holidays or the price of Postage stamps, holiday cards are a tradition that would be a shame to lose.

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