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Write or Flight

http://www.writeorflight.com

A blog about writers, the writing lifestyle and the craft of the written word.

• Added on: Sep 10th, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Phil Jones
• Listed in: Writing Education & Learning
• Tags: style fiction writing

Recent Posts

• Writing Daily

  Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 16:41 in quotes, writing, habits, on writing, daily writing

  I read a statistic the other day that 60% of blogs are abandoned within the first month. This one was headed down that ignoble path, so I decided to give it a little reprieve with a brief post. There is nothing to distinguish a writer from someone wh...

• Remembering John Updike

  Posted on Wednesday January 28th, 2009 at 16:13

  Another legend of American literature died yesterday. John Updike, one of the generation of great writers who helped shape the entire genre of voice in our relatively young writing culture, lost his battle with lung cancer at the age of 76. There are...

• The Power of Letters to Change the World

  Posted on Monday January 12th, 2009 at 18:02 in internet, history, letters, open letters, on writing, good writing, great works

  Mental Floss had a great article on six open letters that had a huge impact on the world. MLK’s Letter from a Birminham Jail is a given, but I also have to give much credit to the Letter on Corpulance… mostly because I love the word corpu...

• New Year’s resolutions: write more?

  Posted on Saturday January 3rd, 2009 at 17:23 in inspiration, passions, on writing

  That’s a good one. I think it comes up every year. Maybe aspiring writers are inclined to be procrastinators more than other types of people, like firefighters (that would be terrible wouldn’t it?) New Year’s resolutions are great f...

• Poetry can have any job

  Posted on Thursday October 16th, 2008 at 00:20 in poetry, inspiration, quotes, wallace stevens, great writers

  Wallace Stevens had every reason to not be poetic. He went to law school because his dad told him to and then he worked in insurance. Those two lifestyles jostle around in my brain for the distinction of least artistic professions I can imagine (such...

• Standard lengths of different forms of fiction

  Posted on Thursday October 2nd, 2008 at 18:52 in writing tips, writing advice, guidelines, on writing, genre lengths, novella length, short story length, writing lengths

  Maybe the difference between a novella and a novel isn’t that clear to you. How short is a short story before it’s too short and has to be called something else –shorter? These questions don’t really need hard and fast answers...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

Tony L. Jefferson Jr.

This is a great blog and a pretty good start! You highlight some very significant problems in the writing world and also your piece on the hurricanes shows your compassion for your fellow man!

Posted: September 17th, 2008 | More Reviews From tjefferson85 | Report This Comment

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