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Creative Outlining.

I) Introduction a) Meet paul at home b) Meet Sally at home c) Paul and Sally meet d) Paul and Sally decide to have an adven­ture meet­ing friends along the way e) Minor drama amongst the group ensues f) The group over­comes dif­fi­culty to become a stronger unit. II) Climax a) Paul and sally get into

Writing is hard.

Sometimes you can spend an entire morn­ing star­ing blankly at a page, unable for force out even the most bare of syl­lables. Try as you might, you can­not find the will to write. Sometimes you feel like quit­ting, other times you do quit. Mostly though, you sit and stare. The blank page is hate­ful, cruel, and

Books I should be reading.

I have a pile of books that have been accu­mu­lat­ing for a while now. I’ve read a small part of each of them and I want to fin­ish them, but I’m hav­ing dif­fi­culty choos­ing a start­ing point. (Actually, I just made the decision now on which I will read first, but I’m still lost for num­ber two…) Seven Steps on the Writer’s Path:

My daily routine.

For your approval, some­thing about myself. I’m not really very inter­est­ing though. I’m also ter­rible at remem­ber­ing details. My past is a haze really, a few points stand out but the details and events lead­ing to those points are clouded and eph­em­eral. It’s tough to tell a story that has noth­ing but a couple of cli­maxes with no back