Writing taps into the subconscious, allowing new thoughts to emerge and break patterns. Daily writing can dramatically improve mental health by helping individuals work on their faults and experience change. Characters in stories also reflect this, creating a world where people evolve and break free from repeating patterns, providing a cathartic experience.
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Shattered Not by James Patterson
I picked this book and only recently realized it shared the title with my book Shattered.
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Finding Places to Submit Your Work
The author, a successful writer with many published works, offers advice on publishing. Recommended tools include Submission Grinder, a free service that lists potential publishing opportunities, and Submittable, a platform popular with publishers, which simplifies the submission process and includes a tracking feature. Other resources include regular email updates from a specific website, Trish Hopkinson's website for poets, and Facebook groups.
Thoughts After a Workshop
People should write their memoirs. Even if it is only to synthesis your journals or memories.
Women Should be heroes in Stories
I am asking for people to look for the strength in the female characters in Shattered. Because it is there.
Intimidated by Poetry
It is in reworking our images and word choice, that we are poets
The Badge of Writer.
The person that was me six months ago was carefree by comparison.
Poems allow me to go through the photo album of my mind.
we write poems to encapsulate something we want to remember.
Don’t Cancel Me
I do not want to see another stand up routine like "The Diceman." However, can we occasionally still have characters like Barney on "How I Met Your Mother?"
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The importance of a writers group
The first meeting of my writers group began with a few chairs in a circle. Before it began, however, that circle kept getting bigger until more than 30 people were there, eager to connect with other writer The meetings that took place after that were separated into 3 groups. A writers group is educational, but … Continue reading The importance of a writers group
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