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About writing...

30-Day Blogging Challenge: "Write about writing. What makes you feel inspired to write? What steps do you take to get your words from your head onto the page? What does your editing and rewriting process look like? What have you learned from fellow writers?"

Inspiration comes from anywhere and everywhere: a stray conversation, a line in a book, an odd word or grouping of words. When I'm around writers I write.

I use a notepad and pen. As a child I used pencil, but seldom anymore. The flash fiction I usually do directly on-line. I've been known to use regular notebooks for novellas and longer stories. My journal is now 63 notebooks.

I prefer editing on-line as I can't always read my edits on my original notes. Or... I print something out and edit on that. I've been known to store original writings and early edits. I'm not fond of editing, even though I know it's necessary. Reading out-loud helps with poetry, although I hear what I read.

Learned from fellow writers? Of course, but I don't make notes on that that I later remember. I learn a lot from just every day folks as well. I'm not literary nor do I choose to be.

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