What would you write?
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Welcome to The Writing Rundown, a weekly newsletter that offers advice, short essays, and reading suggestions to help driven writers (like you!) improve their writing craft. It's nice to see you here! If someone forwarded you this email because they love your writing, you can subscribe here. Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes “I still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar to New York, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month.” — Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem Have you heard the phrase “I’m on the wrong side of insert social media platform here” before? I don’t know that there is a wrong side to the professional biznass website LinkedIn, but I think I might be on it? This week, I posted something that landed like a fart in a room of sommeliers. At its core, it was a simple question: What would you write if you could write anything? So, my lovely writerly friend who subscribes to this newsletter because you care about writing and the things you are writing and getting even a bit better at that writing… *** If you could pop on over and leave a quick comment about what you would write if you could write anything, I’d really appreciate it. I don’t know what I need to do to get on “the right side” of the algorithm, where the people who love talking about these creative possibilities lie. But maybe you can help? CYC Elsewhere…Other places we’ve popped up around the interwebs.
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Weekly Writing Tip …A quick chance to learn from the masters. “I'm learning so many different ways to be quiet. There's how I stand in the lawn, that's one way. There's also how I stand in the field across from the street, that's another way because I'm farther from people and therefore more likely to be alone. There's how I don't answer the phone, and how I sometimes like to lie down on the floor in the kitchen and pretend I'm not home when people knock. There's daytime silent where I stare, and a nighttime silent when I do things. There's shower silent and bath silent and California silent and Kentucky silent and car silent and then there's the silence that comes back, a million times bigger than me, sneaks into my bones and wails and wails and wails until I can't be quiet anymore. That's how this machine works.” ― Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things This Week’s Writing Resource …Why not use the tools at your disposal? Story Plan Intensive — Looking to write a book this year. Writing coach Kevin T. Johns has a free 4-week course starting this week to get your book from the seedlings of an idea to a comprehensive outline and…wait for it…a plan to get it written! For the Upcoming Week …Because we all need a good chuckle to start things off right! Oooh, fancy! ‘Til next time! ~ Elisa |