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#Writing

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#ScribesAndMakers 22 Jul 'something you've created. Tell us the story behind it'

This is the more modern version of the famous poem by John Godfrey Saxe.

In the middle of the book, with accreditation, and featuring in "The Talent Contest".

The almost true true story of the Blind Men and the Elephant.

Rewritten by Scott Rochester.

Performed by Gordon Bennett.

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Today in The Medium Newsletter, featured stories include:

#Leadership lessons from #HorsebackRiding, by Melissa DePuydt

• The power of softness, by @ze_zhenya

• Finding family heritage in #Ireland, by Bob Gance

• Why messages in #PopularMedia aren’t reaching viewers, by Zach Fernandez

• Writing through jealousy and envy, by Felicia C. Sullivan

• Grilling with pine cones, by John Gobins

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The music was too loud to think, but not loud enough to drown out the wrong kind of laughter.

Eva nursed a flat beer and tried not to look like she was doing what she was doing—watching. Not anyone in particular. Just the swirl of bodies, the heat of too many people in too small a room, and the way the air shifted when Rhett walked past.

He had that lazy confidence, the kind that clung to small-town boys who never heard the word "no" from anyone that mattered.

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@Remittancegirl Thanks for that article! As a professional #writer, I read it with interest, especially about that 'strange emotional charge' (best stuff for SciFi plots!).
Note to myself: I have to stop writing clipped triads.😂
'to prize product over process'/' have to actively resist' such important points!
I think O'Rourke doesn't even need that study, you only have to ask #writers with a well-known individual style and outstanding texts which don't sound like copies.
#Writing is indeed so

#WritersCoffeeClub 22/7: Do you write your characters’ thoughts, or let their actions speak for themselves? Why?
I’m writing in 3rd person limited so only POV characters’ thoughts are accessible to the reader. Given the interior viewpoint, it would be strange, and strained, not to write the thoughts of these characters.
Others, however, can only be revealed through what they say and what they do. And I don’t cheat about this.
#books #writing #writersofmastodon