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The Beauty of Having No Opinion
Have you ever noticed that some people have an opinion about literally everything? It’s not hard to find these people. They are all over social media, and probably within your workplace, social circle, or even your...
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Where Do I Go Now?
Have you ever felt stuck by writer’s block? If so, you’re in good company. That’s exactly the state the members of the legendary rock group Guns N’ Roses found themselves in one day in 1987. They were recording songs...
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How to Recognize a Good Idea
One of the perennial questions writers ask is, “Where do you get good ideas?” It’s a fair question because all of us have struggled with finding good ones for our writing. The overriding feeling we have is that we...
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Discovery Comes During Writing, Not Before
In the fiction-writing community, there are two terms thrown around quite a bit: plotters and pantsers. Plotters are writers who know the whole plot of the story before they start writing. Pantsers are those who write...
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Curiosity Resurrected the Cat
You’ve heard the saying “curiosity killed the cat.” The phrase has been around in some form or another for hundreds of years and is meant to be a warning to those who would investigate a matter too closely. Perhaps we...
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It's Your Choice
Everything in life is a choice. It’s up to you. It’s all your choice. We live in a beautiful time where anything is possible. Writers a hundred years ago would have done anything to get the opportunities we have....
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Become a Person of Interest
In the law-enforcement community, a person of interest is a phrase used to describe someone who may be involved in an ongoing investigation or connected with a crime, but they haven’t been formally accused of a crime....
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Lynn Smargis: How to Repurpose Your Content Into a Book
I’m excited to feature a conversation from this past in the Daily Writer Community. My friend Lynn Smargis is a freelance writer in the area of health and fitness, gluten-free lifestyle, education, science, travel,...
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Go Ahead, Cross the Streams
When it comes to curiosity, most people don’t cross the streams. They keep their reservoirs of knowledge separate from one another. History, religion, arts, psychology, politics, technology … they keep them in their...
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When was the Last Time You Were Astonished?
We live in a world where miraculous things happen every day. Of course, most of these things don’t seem miraculous to us. They seem ordinary. But it all depends on your perspective. On this episode, Kent reminds us...
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What Should You Write About? Try This.
Everyone feels writer’s block sometimes. The next time you aren’t sure what to write about, try combining two things you love. Author Dan Miller writes, “Passion is the intersection of multiple curiosities.” You won’t...
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Inspiration is a Shy Fellow
We’ve all heard it before (and probably said it): “I’m just not feeling inspired today.” There might be a hundred reasons why we don’t feel inspired, but there is one way to correct it that works almost every time....
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