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Month-long-ish Writing Experiment
Is More…More?
There have been quite a few posts lately, some by writers whom I hold in high regard, about the practice of daily, or near-daily, writing as a periodic exercise to “shake out the cobwebs” or just improve practice. Now, I’ve never been one to do that, really, since for years I have made my living as a writer, just not in my genre of choice. I write technical manuals and proposals for a living, and I do in fact take a fair bit of joy in what I produce. I don’t take so much joy, though, that I have shed all desire to write in essay form, or you’d never see my stuff here. (Lucky or unlucky you, you be the judge.)
After giving more thought to the practice, and since I’m going through a bit of a professional skin-shedding, I thought I’d commit to, if not writing every day, to at least ramping up my dedication to craft and churning out some exercises based on prompts or tickets. I’ve long held on to a deck of cards called the “Wordsmith Deck” from which I can draw a card any time and select a writing prompt at random. I use them from time to time when I truly am just writing for exercise (yes, we writers do that, exercise just for the sake of practice). The results usually wind up in a slush pile never to be read by anyone, and that’s fine by me.
Instead of chucking them, though, I’m going to wrestle them a bit more and in the coming weeks (maybe 3 or 4 weeks, to be precise), publish them here to do that cobweb-shaking and see what comes of it.
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Namaste.
