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Keeping Calm: When Things Don’t Go As Planned
It goes without saying, but a lot of times, things don’t really go as planned. This extends outside of the writing scenarios that we have often used as frames for our posts, and definitely into life, in general. From plans being rescheduled at the very last minute, to traffic jams becoming problematic because you have a lot of things to do and you’ve already mapped them out, except you’re being held up, to so, so many other things that we can easily get stressed over. In a day and age where everything moves fast, and everyone demands so many things from everyone else, one cannot exactly afford to get stalled…
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What It Means to Write
In this post on CreativInfluence, I talked about what it takes to write, and a brief recap would bring us to four key elements I’ve mentioned: awareness, patience, discipline, and courage. These four essential elements that a writer should have will be, however, for naught, if we lose track of the meaning and purpose of writing. I’ll talk about that today, though I did touch on that in brief, in the aforementioned post. To start, I will bring in, again, J.G. Ballard, with a brief quote about the writer: We live inside an enormous novel… The fiction is already there. The writer’s task is to invent the reality. – J.G. Ballard Ballard’s…
