Writing A Novels & Stories

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Just the quiet beauty of this moment, this chapter, this page. She reached for her journal that night and wrote: The greatest stories aren’t written all at once. They’re built word by word. Day by day. With love. And time. And the courage to begin again.

paper in my hand. He leans forward, propping himself on his elbows. "You're better than passable. Your writing is sloppy, your conclusions always a fraction as strong as your introductions. You're burnt out by the end of the paper, or you're bored, and it shows. Yet your arguments are strong. Maybe the strongest in your class. You have a grasp on the material but you let yourself fizzle out before you're done, so you don't articulate them as well as you should."

I drafted the address over three days. Not continuously. I wrote in the evenings when the lab work was done and the flat was quiet and I could think in the mode that formal address writing required. That mode was different from building a case. Case-building was argumentation: identify the claim, find the support, anticipate the counter, and sequence it correctly. A formal address was a declaration. State who you are. State what the situation is. State what it means. The argumentative logic was implicit rather than explicit—present in the structure of what you chose to name, not spelled out in connecting clauses.

The paper had jagged handwriting that you would expect from a child in grade school. Was he learning to write?

At twelve people's handwriting in the margins of twelve pages of something that had started as a blank page and a question. What would it look like. "I'll write it," she said. "Tonight?" "Tonight," she confirmed. She wrote it alone. After the group had eaten and dispersed to their evening work and the building had settled into its quiet productive hum. She sat at the table with the full document beside her and wrote a different document. Shorter. Four pages. The kind of writing that had to carry a complex thing without oversimplifying it. That had to be honest about what Still Waters was without making it sound either small or threatening.

And before I knew it, I was writing. _____ Thanks for reading! ~Chris xx.

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😅 It's my first time writing such (It was really tasking by the way😅)and I'd really like to know how I did. I'll be waiting for your response. 🥰 Thank you.

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