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The Power of an Understanding Spouse

by Benjamin M. Strozykowski on July 20, 2010

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Having a spouse who gets the creative condition can not only allow you the time to hone your craft, but can even accelerate your mastery.

Whether he or she simply yields or trades their time for your work, the most compelling reason to create more rapidly and copiously is that they take an active role in your process.

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3 Ways to Make Writing Higher Priority in Your Life

by Benjamin M. Strozykowski on July 13, 2010

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Those of us who lack the set of genes to have a true sense of intrinsic motivation in our creative pursuits must find ways to push ourselves to reach our goals.

Here are a number of techniques I am using to get myself to the creative finish line.

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Is Writing Like Riding a Bicycle?

July 6, 2010

Is writing like riding a bicycle? That is what I aim to find out over the coming weeks with this mini relaunch of Not Very Novel.

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Writing In The Cloud: Add Dropbox To Your Toolkit And Create A Portable Writing Platform

February 22, 2010

One of the most frustrating aspects of being a writer is the portability of the project that you are currently working on.
If you are using traditional pen and paper methods, you must remember to have your trusted notebook along with you at all times to record the little bits of inspiration that come to you [...]

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SHAW – SHut up And Write

February 18, 2010

The sheer number of distractions that I see on a daily basis–Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, etc.–tend to drag a portion of my brain in the wrong direction. Even when I sit down with the best of intentions, my mind just wanders off and suddenly it is 3 hours later, and I have forgotten why [...]

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When Do You Know When You’re Done?

February 17, 2010

Yesterday’s post, How Not To Write A Novel – Or 4 Ways To Drop The Ball quickly became the most read post on this blog. I wanted to follow up with another good writing topic that has been on my mind for the past few days.
When Do You Know When You’re Done?
Some writers start [...]

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How Not To Write A Novel – Or 4 Ways To Drop The Ball

February 16, 2010

As I’ve mentioned elsewhere multiple times in the past, I am working on writing a novel. Truthfully, there is enough material in the universe of this novel for three or four full length novels.
I started with the ideas in late 2002, and have progressively and consistently dropped the ball day after day since then. [...]

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Blogs and Resources for the Aspiring Writer

February 15, 2010

I’ve been coming across more and more sets of specific tips for the writer in all of us while browsing randomly around the web. While there are quite a few blogs that specifically post articles only about writing, there are lots of blogs that have a focus in some other area, and still manage [...]

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Writer’s Guilt

February 13, 2010

Every creative person before me has identified and dealt with a little issue that I’m going to call Writer’s Guilt.  Writers Guilt occurs in two distinct–yet definitely intertwined–forms.
It occurs to me that everyone with a creative pursuit must go through this ordeal and come away making a choice in either direction.  I have yet to [...]

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