“Why is writing so much harder for me than it is for everybody else?” — every novelist ever, secretly to themselves, all the time — Lev Grossman (@leverus) April 28, 2015 Assignment #5 for Writing 101 of Blogging University is to “Let social media inspire you.” One of the goals of Writing 101 is to tap […]
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Assignment #4 for Writing 101 at Blogging University is to create a story from a single image. Images — including photographs and works of art — can also act as starting points for stories, essays, poems, and personal musings. For this exercise, use one of the images provided as the creative spark for today’s post. You
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Assignment #3 for Writing 101 at Blogging University is to select one word from the list below that speaks to you in some way. Have you always wanted to write about that wrong decision you made? Are you a long-term traveler looking for the right city to settle? Do you want to write a poem about your
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Blogging University’s Writing 101, Assignment #2 is to write a list on one of these topics: Things I Like Things I’ve Learned Things I Wish There are no rules, though it might help to decide in advance how many items you’d like to include, or set a timer, so you have boundaries within which to work.
Getting a slow start on my assignments for Writing 101 of Blogging University due to being on vacation but better late than never! This post is in response to the first assignment. I write because… I can’t speak. Ok…well, technically, I can speak. I have no problem talking. It’s just that social situations are intimidating
Share each Friday, on your own blog, one photo…or maybe even a gallery of some of your favorite photos that you have taken during the week, that make you smile or that was a great photo capturing opportunity…anything really! And as photographers are often known to say, “The best camera is, the one that you have with
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Today’s post is in response to a weekly event at The Broken Spine called Wednesday’s Lyrics. The idea is to post song lyrics to a song that has inspired or moved you. As well as a brief reason why you chose your particular song. The song doesn’t necessarily have to be heard within the current week. It could be
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The joys of preparing to go away! I am furiously spending today cleaning and organizing and trying to make sure everything is in order before we venture off for our ‘big’ (I use this word loosely!) yearly vacation! Each year we go down to Wildwood, NJ for the Roar to the Shore bike run. I
Share each Friday, on your own blog, one photo…or maybe even a gallery of some of your favorite photos that you have taken during the week, that make you smile or that was a great photo capturing opportunity…anything really! And as photographers are often known to say, “The best camera is, the one that you have with
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I have been feeling so overwhelmed lately!! There is so much to do…and so little time! I have all these little (and not so little) projects that I want to get to, books to read, knitting projects to start (a few cool days and my knitting muse has returned!), online classes to work on, not
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