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Thursday Seeds: Inner Listening
It can only happen when you stop and do so with intention. The reason could be, as I saw on a TV show last night, to reaffirm that happens next. A brief pause even in a critical emergency that can deviate the course of the outcome. It was the case in diagnosing a patient. A few seconds of waiting in that setting that can seem like a life time. And yet, it’s only long enough to hear what wasn’t heard or to correct what was likely mis-heard. It happens. We want the best things to happen and yet that might not actually be what is actually going on. That course…
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Thursday Seeds: Talk to your Characters
The voices in your head that are your characters… Are you crazy? In a sense, you are, but don’t take yourself to the hospital just yet. Get their names down. If they don’t want you to know them, they shut up real fast. If they don’t care, you can have a conversation that may even tell you about the characters in your next book. If you talk with authors, they will tell you that the best characters have minds of their own. They don’t fit in a sweet box and they usually, if given room, will change your story for the better. You hear all the time as a writer,…
