Tips On Writing

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A Writer’s Exercise

All artists have exercises to help them with the craft of their art. Painters and sculpters are always sketching. Musicians do scales and are always plinking and plunking and tinkling on something. Dancers do their bar work. Singes do vocal warmups. An exercise we recommend for writers is to sit down, look at something in [...]

Post 21 – Daydream Yourself into Your Work

Much good writing, even fiction writing, requires research and study.  If you want to get your story straight, as they say in the Cop shows, you need to know the facts that support and enhance your work.  Even good fantasy has some root and basis in reality and science fiction will need a plausible scientific [...]

Post 13 – A Writer’s “Finger Exercise”

When a music student learns to play the piano (or the horn, I imagine) his teacher will give him finger exercises do daily to condition his fingers and his ears to become limber, to know where the notes are, to know how to move from one to another and know what they sound like.  The [...]

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