Category: Writing
For posts about writing, the writing process, etc.
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LexPoMo: Try Something New Even If It Terrifies You
Like many other modern humans, I am guilty of becoming complacent in my daily and professional lives. Even though I have been absent from this space for quite some time now due to several professional commitments, I have not abandoned writing or my search for a sustainable writing practice. After spending so much time around…
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What Are Sundays For?
Most weeks during the year I find myself dreading Sundays. Since I find myself working six out of seven days a week many months of the year, Sunday is the only day where I can pretend to relax, where I can spend a little time by myself for myself. While I would love to laze…
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A Review of Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice
I have a horrible hunger for stories about writers. Whenever I visit a bookstore, one of the sections I feel the need to visit every time is whichever one has the writing books. Even though I used to grow frustrated with biographical information that seemed to get in the way of the writer’s connection to…
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The Piling-Up of Small Winter Words
Winter has always been magical for me, and snow represents the peak of that magical feeling. Not only is the accumulation of snow literal crystals congregating on top of our dirty world and refreshing it, but everything about the world feels different whenever a fresh snowfall settles. Each snow event and the situations that lead…
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A New Year, A New Year of Writing
I despise the tradition of making New Year’s Resolutions. The only times I ever succeeded with my resolutions were when I made them sufficiently vague enough that I could meet them. This looks like making a resolution to “read more” or “exercise more” or whatever, yet most people do not stop to comment upon the…
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A Philosophy of Writing
One exercise that I have had writers do the last few years centers on students defining some of their beliefs about writing and learning by putting some of those thoughts on the page so that they could form a writing philosophy of sorts. Even though I have spent a lot of time thinking about some…
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What Does a Writerly Life Look Like?
Like many dreamers my age who love to write, I carry that fantasy within me that I can write in many of those idyllic places people romanticize about in every form of media. I would walk down to the local coffee shop, order a drink and something to eat, sit down, and then work for…
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Welcome to the Death or the Desk Blog!
As anyone who has ever had to write a paper for a class or anything important for any situation in life can tell you, writers are brilliant procrastinators who have discovered any number of ways to keep from working on this or that project. One of my favorite—and perhaps ironic—methods for doing so is the…