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Things to Do When words won’t come
If I’m ever to make the leap from writer to author on a book — it’s a leap, every single time — I must do something.
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What’s your home for hope?
Hope is an essential element to creating a book. For months, or years, or even longer, your book is going to little more than a dream in your head and heart.
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Making legacy look like largesse
Your legacy writing should aim for more, though. You want to bring the idea of largesse to your legacy.
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Write to live longer
Hemingway said that for him, it was write or die — but he really meant it was write and die, and then live again in your writing.
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How to move along a book in a blitz
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Great books search for meaning
By defining what is easier for a machine to write, we settle upon what stories are best for humans to create. We fulfill our destiny and potential as authors when we make stories that have a sense of meaning.
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The Disciples of Creativity
The root of the word disciple means to show a devotion, so these practices are the devotional work we do as writers while creating stories.
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How shacks become nurseries
How in the world could a tumbledown spot make a difference in creating a book? The rules of inspiration are mysterious. An image or a concept or an association can occur in a workspace removed from your routine.
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Do the least to finish
Once you’re inside the work, making just one passage, you’re likely to do more. We teach each other about this kind of persistence in the Workshop’s Finishing School — which a lot of the time is Working School. No work = no finishing.
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How to Write Faster
Strunk & White, the style experts. They say, keep it short; erect a pup tent, not a cathedral. You make the writing into something holier on your rewrite. Lower your standards for your first draft. Let your hands do the thinking. You can raise your standards during revision.

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