Archive for October 3, 2007

Julia Unggai | October 3, 2007
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What is SAD and how you can use it to fuel your interest in writing

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One Sunday afternoon in early September I felt overwhelmed by a sense of sadness. I felt it the day before, but just brushed it off for I thought my emotions have played a trick on me again! For every late Summer Season I experience a similar feeling. Now that I am returning to my writing, I started to pay closer attention to my own feelings. Interestingly enough, when I started to feel sad for nothing, I am very much interested to write more. So, I decided to find out what exactly is going on. Why do I feel this sense of sadness when I don’t have any other reasons to feel this way? I did try to explain the reason I feel sad because the summer is over and I wish that this season will continue forever.
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Julia Unggai | October 2, 2007
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Writing from the heart


While still in an experimental stage of blogging, you struggle to find an angle for your writing niche. You look around for guidance and you locate several books that steer you in the direction you are aiming for. Does this sound familiar?

All new writers will face the same dilemma when they just start to write. I find books about writing most helpful in stirring the sleeping writer in me and one of the books is titled Writing articles from the Heart: How to Write and Sell Your Life Experience by Marjorie Holmes.
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Julia Unggai | October 1, 2007
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How writers handle rejection slip(s)?

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Where are all the writers? I have been looking for their websites to read their experiences about writing. I find a few, but what about the others? Where have you’ll been hiding? I need to see your websites and read what you have been writing lately. So, before I give up in frustration, I just have to find them one more time. This time I used “rejection slips” as a search term to try to locate them on the Internet. Suddenly, BINGO! The google search engine returns several pages of the list of writers (well not all of them real writers) writing about rejection slips! Aren’t I lucky! I am about to write a topic about rejection slips and learned writers are so generous in sharing their experiences of receiving them.
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