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I have it already the pleasure when I lauch writing …

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For me writing is the most rewarding and maddening endeavor I have ever undertaken. Sometimes you sit down at the keyboard and the keys just clickclickclick away like raindrop patter and every image is poignant and you ride atop a soaring wave of creative flow until suddenly you realize it’s been 2 hours and 5 pages since you sat down and you exhale a sigh of supreme satisfaction. The world is a beautiful place and you have a beautiful real purpose.

These times are few and far between.

They are flanked by many large angry phalanxes of crappy times. Writer’s block is, for me, a misnomer, because it suggests that if the writer were to use some figurative plunging or Draino-powered purging, everything would flow freely. When things are not flowing it never seems the fault of a “block,” but rather the crappy crumbling system of my own cerebral plumbing. It’s simply no good. It’d be cheaper to trash the whole damn thing than to try and fix a little leak or blockage. I feel like the paragraph I’m staring at is shit, the chapter I’m pondering is shit, the project, and by extension my entire pathetic creative career and very existence is shit…

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For me, the biggest thing that helped with my online writing was using Dragon Naturally Speaking (dictation software). Instead of having to concentrate on typing the words out, I could just speak and the computer would pick it up perfectly (minus some errors of course).

In fact, I would recommend dictation software be used when writing blog posts – it comes across as more of a conversation.

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>> 3. Develop your vocabulary by learning 3 new words every day.
4. Buy a huge dictionary, thesaurus and grammar book.
5. Use that dictionary, thesaurus and grammar book every day. <<

But my number-1 way to improve your writing is to KNOW DAMMIT when to use YOUR and YOU’RE!

Drives me bonkers.

Oh yes, and never to let “like” sneak in, as in, “I like had to find 3 pieces of wood.” (a classic WRITTEN line in one of my kids’ writing projects; it tooks day for me to recover from such abhorrent grammar).

Best wishes,

Barbara

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Classic list. Great!

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@ Monika – Truthfully, I didn’t think of it as a links post. I added the links after the fact, just sort of off the cuff.

@ Meryl – “Good Niebu.” I think that’s a new one. I’ll have to use it now.

Good niebu, Bob.

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Definitely going to keep a list of dead words visible at all times – I use them far too often!

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@ All – check out this site of “Dead Words.” I think they’ve covered ours plus a few we’ve missed!

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Thank you, Bob, anyone accomplishing all 178 would theoretically be well worth reading! ^_^