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Continue reading →: A quiet walk on New Year’s eveEvery New Year’s eve seems like the brink of something momentous. As though we are suddenly standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon looking into a vast uncharted space where anything can happen. A second chance at things left behind in the old year. A significant mark on the…
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Originally posted on bottledworder: It’s that time of year again. Kids laughing and people rejoicing and men and women trampling each other to get to the sales at the malls. Bottledworder wishes Bottledworder could put up the following scrap of paper on the blog: But wait! Bottledworder is already a…
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Continue reading →: New Year’s Resolutions 2013: Guide for Writers
Some of us want to write more, and more, and more in 2013. Others would write less, but well. Some of us would like to become famous writers. Yet others would like to hit that jackpot deal with publishers. Many of us would like to win that literary prize or…
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Continue reading →: Improve your writing on the web
Some things just become better with practice. I never realized the importance of this dictum until I started this blog myself. There were some tenets of writing on the web that I knew theoretically but never really felt the importance of until I put those ideas into practice myself. Through numerous…
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Continue reading →: Holiday lights in Manhattan
Yesterday we thought it would snow. The sky turned as gray as slate, the sunlight dimmed, the ducks took shelter under the piers, the water of the river looked like a solid mass. In short, life seemed like the cloud before the silver lining except that the silver lining never…
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Continue reading →: Make Bottledworder better in 2013
It’s that time of year again. Kids laughing and people rejoicing and men and women trampling each other to get to the sales at the malls. Bottledworder wishes Bottledworder could put up the following scrap of paper on the blog: But wait! Bottledworder is already a zero. We’re all zeros…
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Continue reading →: The open-minded and the cocksure
Do you have an open mind? Why would you want to have an open mind? Having an open mind makes you less judgemental. Being less judgemental makes you a better observer of things. You can see things from various people’s perspectives, put yourself in others’ shoes, feel what they feel.…
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Continue reading →: Should you write about everything?
There is a time to write and there is a time to stay silent. To not write. And there are times when writing does not come. No, I am not talking about writer’s block. I am talking about events in a person’s life that leave a deep impact. Pain that…
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Continue reading →: My stories
Why is storytelling important? Why is it important to learn how storytelling works? Never mind fiction. Never mind other people’s stories. Never mind the manipulations of truth that we are subjected to everyday as news. Never mind those stories that are silenced around us. No matter what we feel about…
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Continue reading →: Writing efficiency
Imagine a place where all roads are numbers. Imagine a school where all the kids sit in order of their heights and all kids greet each other in alphabetical order. Imagine a neighbourhood where kids no longer play but only have play dates. Imagine a country where all tunnels are…
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Continue reading →: Black Friday sale on a dark night
It was a cold November night. The area outside my apartment complex was pretty dark (as it always was after sundown) in the quiet university town in Florida that I lived in. I quietly locked the door making sure that I did not wake my roommates and proceeded towards my…
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Continue reading →: How to fail better at writing (Part 2)
Continued from How to fail better at writing (Part 1) Why examining failure is important I think that a lot of current attention on teaching and learning writing is focused on attempts at being successful and on how to write well. Not enough focus is given to understanding failure–why and…
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