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writercisesOriginal Posting April 28, 2017
Looking back through old drafts of email, I found this (2014? What the heck?). Thought you might enjoy it...
Here is one version.
1. Write. Watch for things that interest, excite, or otherwise make you feel something. Carry a notebook, memo pad, tablet, your smart phone, and write them down. John Brown calls them zings. The little bits and pieces among the torrent of information that we all swim in that make you wake up and notice them. Whatever you call them, start paying attention!
2. Finish what you write. I would guess maybe one out of five zings really snags you, and insist on being written about. But whatever it is, regularly pick one out and write it up. Fill in the context, the setting, characterize, add to it -- whatever it takes to let your reader understand. Short story, poetry, essay, nonfiction, fictionalized account... Put it together.
3. Get it out there. On this list, use subs, fill, or wherever it fits. If you're ready, use KDP or one of the other programs to get it out there in front of the public. Send it out in letters to the editor, put it on your blog, add it to your Facebook wall, twitter about it -- I guess that should be tweet about it? -- Or even submit it to ye olde publishing system.
4. Keep it out there. Point people at it, remind them that it is there, put it out in other formats.
Write!
tink
Looking back through old drafts of email, I found this (2014? What the heck?). Thought you might enjoy it...
Here is one version.
1. Write. Watch for things that interest, excite, or otherwise make you feel something. Carry a notebook, memo pad, tablet, your smart phone, and write them down. John Brown calls them zings. The little bits and pieces among the torrent of information that we all swim in that make you wake up and notice them. Whatever you call them, start paying attention!
2. Finish what you write. I would guess maybe one out of five zings really snags you, and insist on being written about. But whatever it is, regularly pick one out and write it up. Fill in the context, the setting, characterize, add to it -- whatever it takes to let your reader understand. Short story, poetry, essay, nonfiction, fictionalized account... Put it together.
3. Get it out there. On this list, use subs, fill, or wherever it fits. If you're ready, use KDP or one of the other programs to get it out there in front of the public. Send it out in letters to the editor, put it on your blog, add it to your Facebook wall, twitter about it -- I guess that should be tweet about it? -- Or even submit it to ye olde publishing system.
4. Keep it out there. Point people at it, remind them that it is there, put it out in other formats.
Write!
tink