A Saint in Paradise
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"2001: A Space Odyssey" by Arthur C. Clarke
I watched the movie years ago, and hadn’t read the book. I wanted to read it, since I had read elsewhere that 2001 was a first contact story, of all things (I never would’ve guessed that from the movie – I knew the monolith was weird, but never connected the dots. The movie had a lot of weird). I’ve been really into first contact, aliens, star trek, transformers, and so on recently, so something a…
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“Where do you get your ideas?” by Fred White
This book is why I was finally able to get my daily word count up. Full stop. Maybe I learned more about writing over the years from various structure books and good ol’ Strunk & White, but when it comes to getting actual results, simply learning how to write ideas down as they come to you (and that you should just write down whatever comes to you) was incredibly helpful. It’s a little sad that th…
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Writing is Running
I had an epiphany about a year or so ago: writing is long-distance running. It’s an endurance sport, and takes time to build up. That’s why it seemed so difficult to even spit out one thousand words in a day ten years ago, but nowadays, I can sometimes do four thousand words in just an evening. I was on roll! All I had to do was keep writing, and I would be better at hitting my word count. Perhaps…
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