This was a great validation for me, not to mention practical. When I can't seem to settle down into a piece, I tell myself, "Just give yourself 15 minutes and if it nothing shakes loose..."
Inevitably, something does shake loose within those 15 minutes and an hour and ten pages later, I have raw material to work with.
I also don't try to write perfect pages. I just write and figure I can always go back and make them squeaky clean.
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Barbara DeMarco-Barrett is author of the bestselling and award-winning Pen on Fire: A Busy Woman's Guide to Igniting the Writer Within (Harcourt, 2004), which is now in its 8th printing. She has a short story, "Crazy for You," in Orange County Noir, published by Akashic Books (2010) and an essay, "Knitting, My Urban Escape," in Knitting Through It (Voyageur, 2008). She hosts and produces Writers on Writing, which airs Weds. at 9 a.m. Pacific on KUCI-FM 88.9 in Orange Co., Ca, and streams live at www.kuci.org
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This was a great validation for me, not to mention practical. When I can't seem to settle down into a piece, I tell myself, "Just give yourself 15 minutes and if it nothing shakes loose..."
Inevitably, something does shake loose within those 15 minutes and an hour and ten pages later, I have raw material to work with.
I also don't try to write perfect pages. I just write and figure I can always go back and make them squeaky clean.
Thanks,
Mary C.
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