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Words On A Page

June 16th 2008 03:56
Writing: the art of putting COHERENT words on a page... and so much more.

Just because you can perform the act of writing words coherently doesn't make you a true writer. A true writer takes talent and hard work. To be a true writer you have to be determined to write, to want to write, to love writing.

Not just to be able to write a bunch of sentences and put them together so they make sense. Sorry. The rules of writing are simple....

1-Write a lot
2-Read a lot
3-If at first you don't succeed, try, try again

In other words 1-write AND FINISH STUFF, 2-READ AND FINISH BOOKS and 3-rewrite and try many publishers and agents if it's good enough.


I don't have much else to say tonight 'cause I'm sick but please don't say you're a writer... if writing isn't your passion.
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A Writer's Work

June 13th 2008 23:14
What good is writing?

Let me tell you what writing is good for.

Writing is good for providing people with entertainment. It's good for telling stories, for showing metaphors. Good for thought and comparisons, diagnosis. Or good for pure fun. For an escape from reality (thank you Queen). A way to get away.

Writing is also a good way to be noticed. Writing is good for gaining awareness. Writing is good for a lot of things. It's good for getting your opinion out. For pointing out the nitty gritty and challenging society's rules and thoughts, opinions and stigmas. For going against the status quo.


Both of those paragraphs describe why I write. And guess what? I think it's damn well about time I start doing some writing to raise awareness. Because I'm sick of watching people destroy the earth. I'm sick of watching us all ruin this planet. And I'm sick of watching humanity make itself extinct.

How am I going to do anything?

With much hard work and difficulty. But I will. That, my friends, is a promise. One I will keep, unless I die tonight.
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Blogging 101: Ten Big Mistakes

February 22nd 2008 16:23
Yeah, I'm low on ideas so here's what I have. Ten big mistakes of blogging, at least five of which I probably committed at least once in my life.

1) Posting once. And then never again. You need to post consistently.

2) Posting consistently for a month and then giving up-it takes quite a while to build up your reader base. It also takes plenty of work. So you seriously do need to write on a regular basis for a while. It may be uninspiring at first... but heck, even a little jump in readership makes my day.

3) Posting about a bunch of random crap. You need a focus as a general rule; if you're blogging for personal satisfaction, the rule changes. If you're blogging for readers and recognition, you need a focussed subject.

4) Taking random three-month hiatuses. OK, so my computer broke... that's my excuse... and it's true. But random hiatuses are bad as a general rule.

5) Posting irregularly, as in once every two or three weeks. It loses you a lot of readership and a fair bit of faith from said readers.

6) Not editing. Seriously. If you can't write the English language, you won't make it as a blogger 99% of the time. You can't use chat speak or fill your post with typos and grammar errors and expect us to read it. My eyes would bleed.

7) Inconsistency. If your posts are inconsistent, or you tend to hop from one topic to another, it's just like any other form of writing. BAD THING. Your posts may change topic every post, but every paragraph? And remember, you need a focus. You can't just do a post about writing and then one about, say, baseball. Or soap operas.

8) Thinking that it's easy. It's not easy. It takes loads of hard work-sort of-a lot of writing, a fair bit of time, and you have to go out there and comment on other people's blogs, link to other people, put your link out there... You do ALL the promotion.

9) Thinking you're gonna strike it rich. Have fun failing.

10) THE absolute WORST: insulting your readership.

Yeah, let's see, I've done the disappearing acts, the giving up, the thinking it's easy... okay, three or four...
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Writing Work

January 22nd 2008 21:26
I'm praying right now. Praying that I'll get a big gigantic break in my writing. I'm looking for places to submit one of my short stories to (the one that's been sent around and around) and praying that someday SOMETHING will come along.

Right now I'm also on the lookout for poetry competitions and publishers. I'm looking everywhere and hoping that something soon will come through. Within a couple weeks I should know if one of my pieces is getting published


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Writing Is Difficult Without Computer

January 20th 2008 00:35
I've got very, very limited computer access right now (as in I only have it at my bf's), so my writing is flopping and so is my blogging.

But I AM alive. Yay.
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Been Sick But I'm Back Into It

January 14th 2008 04:16
I've been getting hugely back into my writing as I recover from my stress sickness. I'm getting seriously into it because I want to make a career out of this.

This is my life, this is my dream, this is my career. It is everything to me and it is my only passion-honestly, it's the only thing other than my spirituality that I care about


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Not much to say

January 8th 2008 20:10
I wrote a couple poems, but they sucked pretty badly. So guess what? I've got nothing else to say, I'm just updating to update.
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Writing stuffses

January 6th 2008 22:39
So. My life is dull, boring, and nothing unusual. I mean, seriously, nothing unusual. Okay, that's utter crap, but hey.

I'm going through an incredible dry period when it comes to writing. Seriously. Even getting up the motivation to post here is an incredible amount of work. I don't have much else to do, though, so I figured I'd write up a post


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Getting Into It

January 4th 2008 04:29
I'll freely admit that for the last month, in fact starting December first, I have been completely slacking off. I wasn't going to much school but now I'm just slacking off in all areas of my life and it's something I need to stop doing.

My goal is to write fifty thousand words every month. That isn't difficult, but it's not easy to maintain that. I'm pretty confident that I CAN do it, all I need is dedication. I've been letting things interfere that shouldn't be allowed to interfere with my writing-namely, my love life


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Let's start on these resolution things...

January 2nd 2008 05:37
So here's my plan. I'm going to spend the next few days doing market research. I'm going to write out a list of likely markets and listing those here. That way I'll be motivated to write and submit, and you guys will see some possible markets.

I'm going to restart this blog fully ASAP, it's just I need some time to get myself organized and to get myself with ideas. Eventually everything will be back in good shape around here, but it will take some time [ Click here to read more ]
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New Years Resolutions: The Writer's Way

January 1st 2008 07:01
AND I HATE MY MOTHER.

*cough* So. It's the start of two thousand and eight and we're all thinking about the upcoming year. I predict drama, bull, and me running away for a good two weeks. But, but but but but, I AM going to make New Year's Resolutions


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...Mot...iv...at...ion?

December 7th 2007 04:01
As a writer, one of the hardest things to do is sit down to write EVERY DAY, working on what you hope to turn into a career someday. Finding the motivation to actually write can be a completely annoying and difficult thing to do. Running low on inspiration... well, that's easy.

NaNoWriMo gives people a friendly, competitive push which drives them to the finish line out of sheer determination. It allows people to get off their asses and write. This is the kind of thing I need; right now I need a good motivational push to get me off my ass and writing again


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One of the joys of NaNo: Daily Word Count Goals

December 4th 2007 06:20
NaNoWriMo has one thing about it that just happens to be advice from some of the best writers in my opinion-such as Stephen King. This one thing is that it makes you write, EVERY DAY, or suffer the consequences-a longer catch up day or a severe lack of winning.

This is advice given to writers by many, many, many serious writers. I can't help but echo it to some extent. I mean, as a drudge worker, you show up for work every day, do you not? Well, unless you're sick or on vacation. As a writer, you should love your job, and even when it feels like grunt work, be willing to stick with it. You should show up for work every day unless you're really sick or on vacation-but don't allow yourself any more vacation time (I'd say it should be more like half the vacation time) than a grunt worker would have


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The Beginning Of The End...

December 3rd 2007 07:36
No, the title doesn't really have to do with much of anything. This is going to be my Blogging 101 series, the first post of it. I'm sleepless, out of sheer willpower, not the inability to sleep (I'm waiting for my second wind here... HINT WORLD), so here I am, typing away.

I started this blog a couple months ago. And let me tell you, this blog is part of what is, for me, a beacon of hope. I'm really starting to work towards my single most difficult goal: to be able to survive solely off of my writing by the time I hit eighteen, or at least my arts. I'm into arts other than writing, but writing is my biggest passion in life


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