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500 Words (Or More) Writing Prompt #35: Childhood Routines

by Promptly PortlandAugust 17, 2010
500 Words (Or More) Writing Prompt #35: Childhood Routines

Promptly Portland’s weekly writing prompt takes us back to our childhoods and asks us to consider how we’ve incorporated some of those routines and experiences in our adult lives.

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Memoir Writers Get to Carnegie Hall the Same Way as Everyone Else!

by Kendra BonnettAugust 16, 2010
Memoir Writers Get to Carnegie Hall the Same Way as Everyone Else!

Ray Bradbury’s essay “Zen and the Art of Writing” is the subject of this week’s Writing in Five quick tip video. He has some sound advice on practice, work and how it will help you transcend your writing into a focus on emotion and passion, which is our ultimate objective.

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500 Words (or More) Writing Prompt #33: The Kaleidoscope

by Promptly PortlandAugust 3, 2010
500 Words (or More) Writing Prompt #33: The Kaleidoscope

This week, Promptly Portland suggests a way to examine your life from different perspectives. Have fun turning your memoir kaleidoscope.

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Writing, Reflecting, Recounting: Sharing Natalie Goldberg’s Perspective

by Matilda ButlerAugust 2, 2010
Writing, Reflecting, Recounting: Sharing Natalie Goldberg’s Perspective

In this writing tip video, Matilda shares insights from Natalie Goldberg’s book Old Friend from Far Away. If you find yourself caught up in too much recounting and not enough reflecting, then this video may help you.

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500 Words (or More) Writing Prompt #32: The Seasons of Your Life

by Promptly PortlandJuly 27, 2010
500 Words (or More) Writing Prompt #32: The Seasons of Your Life

Promptly Portland is back with a prompt that lets us think about the seasons of our life in a novel way. You choose which season to write about based on Promptly’s discussion. Be sure to let us know what you think about the prompt.

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Damn the -ly Words (Adverbs) in Your Writing: Learn to Show Don’t Tell

by Kendra BonnettJuly 5, 2010
Damn the -ly Words (Adverbs) in Your Writing: Learn to Show Don’t Tell

Here’s a simple tip for improving your writing. Cut out your dependence on adverbs. They are superficial and take the place of real detail and description. This is one of the easiest changes you can make that will have a profound impact on your writing.

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Writing Tips: Dialogue and Mark Twain

by Kendra BonnettJune 21, 2010
Writing Tips: Dialogue and Mark Twain

In anticipation of our new book, Writing Alchemy, Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler created a new Writing in Five video. This time Mark Twain is our inspiration and the source of our writing tips on dialogue.

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