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    Writing Through The Year: Summer
    Writing Through The Year: Summer
    Writing Through The Year: Summer
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    Writing Through The Year: Summer

    By Winslow Eliot

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    This guide provides writing directions and exercises to improve one's writing techniques. It is one part of a seasonal publication that tailors the exercises in the book to the months of the season and explains good writing and storytelling in a parabolic allegorical language.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWinslow Eliot
    Release dateJun 19, 2012
    ISBN9781937698874
    Writing Through The Year: Summer
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    Winslow Eliot

    Award-winning author of suspenseful and romantic novels: PURSUED, HEAVEN FALLS, BRIGHT FACE OF DANGER, A PERFECT GEM, THE HAPPINESS CURE. I write a newsletter called "WriteSpa - An Oasis for Writers" which has been compiled into a book (plus WORKBOOK) called "WRITING THROUGH THE YEAR." Another non-fiction book is "WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF THERE WAS NOTHING YOU HAD TO DO - Practices to create the life you want." I teach high school English at a Waldorf school and I also write poetry, read Tarot cards, love belly-dancing, singing, and people.

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      Writing Through The Year - Winslow Eliot

      SPECIAL SMASHWORDS EDITION

      Writing Through the Year

      — SUMMER —

      SPECIAL SMASHWORDS EDITION

      Copyright © 2012 Winslow Eliot.

      All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

      The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.

      Cover Designed by: Telemachus Press, LLC

      Cover Art :

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      ePublished and Distributed by Smashwords

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      Designed by: Telemachus Press, LLC

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      Visit the author website:

      http://www.winsloweliot.com

      ISBNs:

      978-1-937698-85-0 (Winter)

      978-1-937698-86-7 (Spring)

      978-1-937698-87-4 (Summer)

      978-1-937698-88-1 (Fall)

      Version 2012.06

      This book wouldn't exist without Claudia Jackson, who gave me the overall concept, production, covers, and ongoing encouragement. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! Samantha Stier and May Paddock were invaluable through the editing process. Thank you also to my visitors to the Write Spa over the years: the many readers and subscribers give me feedback, comments, supported, appreciation, and were refreshed and rejuvenated by their pause at this oasis.

      PREFACE: Why I created WriteSpa – An Oasis for Writers

      INTRODUCTION: How you can use this book and make it your own.

      July

      Week 27 – Stream of Consciousness

      Week 28 – Do Nothing

      Week 29 – Why I Love Fiction

      Week 30 – There are no words for it.

      August

      Week 31 – Let Me Love You

      Week 32 – Writing Slowly

      Week 33 – Message in a Bottle

      Week 34 – Napping Makes You Smarter

      September

      Week 35 – A Place of Your Own

      Week 36 – Castling, Forking, and Making Luft

      Week 37 – Ask yourself: Is this vital?

      Week 38 – Show don’t Tell

      Week 39 – Surprise!

      Your life is an adventure. Every morning you wake up and anything at all might happen! You can set off on a journey, speak your mind, buy something, sell something, look at a painting, take a walk and see a wild boar … the possibilities are endless.

      As a writer, you know this is true. You create worlds with the soul of an adventurer. You create things – you cast a magic spell and a world is manifested. A person is developed. A story unfolds.

      The adventure is thrilling – but it can take its toll. Rest, pleasure, enjoyment in the journey is as important as charging into the fray. You need an oasis.

      The oasis I offer you here is designed to rejuvenate and encourage you. It’s supposed to be fun, fulfilling, and to inspire serenity and nourishment for your writer’s soul.

      Perhaps you write because you’ve been struck by a thunderbolt of inspiration. Or you’re under deadline. Or you’re trying to make money as a writer. Or you write because you enjoy it. Any of these reasons may create a stormy relationship with Writing. But your decision to write is a commitment as important as marriage. Writing needs nurturing, sustenance, and daily practice. Deadlines and inspiration don’t cut it, just as they don’t in a relationship. A pianist practices every day. A painter sketches every day. A lover pays tender attention to the beloved every day.

      When I realized this, I decided I would give Writing all the honor and affection it was due, and see if I could lift it into a daily practice that brought us pleasure and joy.

      In the years that followed this decision I’ve discovered that Writing is not something to wrestle with, or long for, or something that makes me giddy with excitement, or throws me into the bleakest despair imaginable. It’s actually something that is always there for me, and I am always there for it. Since I began writing as a daily practice, our bond has become indissoluble.

      My hope is that the exercises, insights, and encouragement I offer here will nourish and revitalize your own relationship with Writing.

      HOW TO MAKE THIS BOOK YOUR OWN

      This book is called Writing through the Year because my experience has been that

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