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Creative Writing
Chopping the Block: Advice for Creative Writing We’ve all dreamed it at one point or another, whether it was after reading a good book to recharge the batteries, or even after reading a bad one, muttering how we could have done this better. It’s a task that’s become so elusive for the rush-and-on-the-go lifestyle that it might as well be snugly written into the same bucket list as world travel, or meeting that special famed celebrity. And I am of course, speaking of writing and publishing a story. Just about everyone I know has a novel, a poetry collection or a short story in the works on their hard drive, and by this point in my life it’s nothing new to hear about how they’re working on it between their jobs, staying at home to raise their kids, or going back to school. Despite a good lot of human civilizations being based around the oral tradition of storytelling, any one of these people among thousands will tell you that it’s not an easy ambition to follow. It never has been, or else I imagine everyone would have a book on the shelf by now. The simple fact is that writing is not a practice for the faint of heart. There are times when you sit behind that computer contemplating whether or not to throw it out the window because you’re not sure what should happen next. There are times when you are more than willing to scream at the next living thing because you feel like you don’t have the skill to transcribe the amazing scene happening in your head.