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The “Critical Mass” Progress Meter

Just kidding. I don’t really have such a meter — except in my head. The progress being metered, as you may guess if you’ve visited here before, is progress towards completion of a book — especially a novel. You can find real such tools scattered around the Writing Web, enabling you to depict your progress [...]

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Paying Attention to Your Sense of Play

I’d already written this post’s title. And I almost began the body of it with these words: “Sometimes, you just have to”— But, nah. I don’t think everyone, not even every writer, “just has to” do almost anything, much less experience the sort of off-the-wall moment I did one afternoon, years ago. And even less [...]

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Real-Life Dialogue

Patient (handing appointment card for his regular checkup to receptionist at desk in Super Mega Giant medical center): Hey, how you doing, I’m— Receptionist: I know. Got you right here. (Hands exam paperwork to patient; calls out to someone out of sight behind her.) He just got here! I’m sending him right back! (Patient wanders [...]

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