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We're all in this together! In this guest post, author Sharon Wagner considers the ways that writers (and the people who love them) can all work together to support each other.
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Whoa Writing: Too Many People!
You know that song Too Many People from Paul and Linda McCartney’s album Ram? Great album!
Too many people going underground
Too many reaching for a piece of cake
Too many people pulled and pushed around
Too many waiting for that lucky break
Whoa Writing: Time-Bound Stories
When I teach writing, I discuss human beings as storytellers. Our memories of the past, our prognostications for the future, and our search for meaning transform our three dimensional world into a four dimensional one. “Post hoc, ergo propter hoc” may be a logical fallacy when used as the sole basis for reasoning, but storytelling is universal. Trying to figure out how events unfold to create an ending from a beginning is something we do every day.
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Whoa Writing: The Hero’s Buddy
Have you ever had a time where you felt you were too much in your own head? Ruminating about some challenge you were facing? Perseverating about a problem you couldn’t crack? I think we’ve all been there from time to time, restless and resentful that we just can’t stop thinking about something!
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