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The Blog + Video Series #5: Writing from the Head and the Heart
There is a difference for me in thinking about something and actually doing that something. I’ve been thinking about writing my whole life, and have only actually written during a very short period of it.
A couple of years ago I read the book by Stephen King, called On Writing. A great book, by the way. In that book, King asks you to practice writing by imagining a situation taking place in a house, and you have to write the character, yourself I think, out of that situation. Out of the house.
I did that, and have started several other stories, including the one on this site, yet have, to date, finished none. So far.
Yes, I wrote in college and even completed a thesis. Yet, that is not the kind of writing I’m talking about. Writing a thesis or dissertation is about thinking. I’m talking about the kind of writing that comes from the heart.
The kind of writing that moves, touches and inspires people. Maybe even puts…
