Procrastination turns me into a drifter in my own house. Wandering through the kitchen. Making tea. Sighing. Scratching that sweet spot behind my dog’s floppy ear. When all my interviews are completed and my research is done, it’s the actual writing of the thing that can leave me staring into space.
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I know that “write what you know” is good advice, ladled out by the pot-full to beginning writers. It does get you started when you don’t know what to write at all.
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Christie Blatchford is my Show Don’t Tell Writing Guru. The National Post writer shows readers what she wants them to see, instead of spelling it out word by word. This is the hard way to write. But it’s the best way.
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I am in the middle of writing the best article ever. At least it was two days ago when I last looked at it. Opening it again this morning, I wondered who had gotten their hands on it. Who stretched the sentences out so long they took up whole paragraphs? Who came up with that cheesy metaphor?
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Today in Nova Scotia my dad Russ is being awarded with a Queen’s Jubilee Medal to recognize his years of volunteerism.
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