- Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

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    Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks, and...

Writing physical reactions

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    Physical Reactions have sweat beading/breaking out on one's forehead have one's heart in one's mouth (or...

Remember this...

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  To write an engaging story, actions must have consequences.  

Writers' resources

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sick of using "very _____" ? : https://www.losethevery.com/ want to simplify your writing ? : https://hemingwayapp.com/ writ...

Show, don't tell:

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      anticipation - bouncing legs - darting eyes - breathing deeply - useless / mindless tasks - eyes on the clock - checking and re...

The writer

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Fan Ho, 1955

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A man holds onto a tree by the seashore, 1954

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When you're writing

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Unknown, I;m fairly certain its a photo, not a painting.

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Favrile glass vase. 1893 - 1896 tiffany

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I absolutley love this kid

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"Experience has taught me

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  "Experience has taught me that it is wrong and cruel to suspend judgment, that non-judgmentalism is at best indifference to the suffe...

To a literate reader,

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 To a literate reader, a crisp sentence, an arresting metaphor, a witty aside, an elegant turn of phrase are among life’s greatest pleasures...

The main Writing in Progress

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I love B&W

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Vivian Maier. Chicago, June 19, 1961. Federico Patellani. Italy (Sardegna, Barbagia), 1962. Robert Frank. New York City. 1948

What is success?

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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics ...

Some years ago, in the rush making it to the airport I left my wallet and my ID at home. The police guy, trying to help me, took me to a room where he sat at a computer, and lookin at the screen asked, “What is your Brother Daniel’s wife name?” which I answered correctly. Then he asked “What is the occupation of your sister’s husband” which I told him. Content on my ID they let me on to the plane. I was shaken up by the questions. How in the holy hell does the government know those things? We are PRIVASTE citizens. Private citizens. The government should know nothing more about then name and address, social security number. But on the other hand, we should know everything there is to know about PUBLIC servants…..like how to Pelosi makes multi millions of dollars while serving in Congress, you know, that sort of thing.

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Wow....look at this, and thank you to whomsever built it and put it up for the world to see

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Why the wolrd needs editors

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The word umbrella comes from the Latin umbra (shade) and ellipsis from the Greek ekleipein (to fail to appear) -- the same root as the word eclipse.

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wow

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Part of the beauty

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My on going war with auto correct

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Watkins Glen

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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

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Laurence Winram, Scotland

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Watch this

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Absolutely

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Saul Leiter, 1959

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Read, read, read. Read everything

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  Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprenti...

'72-year-old bookseller

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      '72-year-old bookseller, livin g in Rabat, Morocco, spends 6 to 8 hours a day reading books. Having read over 5000 books in Fren...