What’s the most effective way of using Medium?
It was eight o’clock on a Saturday when I walked through the door of the smokey bar. Mac was in his usual spot behind the counter…
“When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is…
My girlfriend cries whenever she hears Billy Joel’s ‘New York State of Mind.’ I don’t cry when I hear it, but that’s probably because I’m not from New York like she is. I’m from Pennsylvania.
My conversation with the co-writers of the movie BlacKkKlansman.
有些念頭像蚊子一樣時不時會縈繞在耳邊，就算打死了，過不久還是會有新的過來，例如「大家實際跟你工作後，就會發現你只會寫不會做」、「專業從不面向大眾」、「你再怎麼練習，還是無法做出好設計」之類的。
這種時候要嘛就一一打死，要嘛就把自己隔離到另一個空間，蚊子就沒辦法叮人了。所以想寫點最近覺得自己值得稱讚的事，想到幾件就寫幾件。
“Are you starving?” I asked my little brother as we sat on the curb of our Willow Hill street. He looked up at me, briefly pausing his…
Write some scenes. Win a great prize.
For the sixth straight year, August is Scene-Writing Month here at Go Into The Story. Every Monday-Friday, I will upload a post with a scene-writing prompt. Each day, write a scene per those guidelines…
Or this: “How can you break screenwriting rules if there are none?”
From @CaveDude21:
I know all rules are made to be broken, but are there any…
“ The essence of her words spills the hearts of the readers with a taste of indelible ectasy…The blossoming young bud from the literary garden of poetry..Ms.Jyothi Patel.
I attended the Denver Comic-Con this summer, and I had the opportunity to attend a panel hosted by three literary agents…
One day a young boy was born.
My God, You are the most powerful creator of all times, but in spite of this power, You know best what it means to be tired of…
In a medium-sized home on the outskirts of the city, Marla Hanzla finishes watering the bed…
”When in doubt, we must be an optimist…
My car stereo’s auxiliary button is having a tantrum, and so I am unable to keep track…
I write fiction under the pseudonym Harrison Kitteridge. I think I do it pretty well, but…
Should I stop?
La primera vez que un femicidio me tocó, fue hace siete años.
I felt like Dr. Frankenstein,mad with an idea,digging through old notebooks,hoping to breathe lifeinto some old dead…
Off the top of my head, I probably can’t spell half the words on a grade nine spelling bee list, even if the rough copy of my poetry book depended on it.
Hello. I am H.H. — author and older gentlemanly lover of Lo. Lo, or Lola, as you shall read or have read, is my lover…
My buddy Sunny Creates just created a publication called The Daily Rant. It’s for people that have a lot to f****** say.
I’ve already contributed a piece there and I think it’s a bold new publication that’s sure to stir up some drama on Medium.
Kids in Hillsborough County went back to school today. I wasn’t there to welcome them, to share my goals for the year, or to build a classroom community.
Today, I’m on my own. Sitting at my desk, staring at the pages I need to revise and edit. Little…
Often I get on the subway and I don’t know what to try write — I feel like I’m wasting my…
“I’m gonna miss this place that proves I was right.”
— Land of the Lost (2009), written by Chris Henchy & Dennis McNicholas, based on television series by Sid Kroft & Marty Kroft
Almost 2 years ago to the day, I wrote an article called “Which Business Bullsh!t Phrases Annoy You The Most” and it went viral. The premise was simple, tell us your most reviled business bullsh!t word or phrase and why…
Exercises in specificity:
Use a simple sentence, eg. Ken was angry.
Ask HOW SO? Write with more details, eg. Ken snapped at the cashier.
Ask WHY? Discover why he’s so angry, eg. Ken snapped at the cashier in the cashmere…
Description: Writing essays has never been easier for the students. The reason is most of the students do not have enough practise writing essays. As a reason, they fail to write an impressive essay and do not prefer writing essays. However, writing an essay…
Scene 2
Ext. -– Salt flats, Utah/ INT — 1955 Chevy Bel Air — daytime — 1959
The Super Power Pack V8 rumbles. Wind is loud through the open windows. Patsy Cline is falling to pieces on the radio.
The landscape is flying by at a pretty good clip.
In this article you will find a step-by-step tutorial to insert the Twist player…
It is just before 6 a.m. in Paris. It wouldn’t be accurate to say that we are growing…
I often wonder about the words I would say if I didn’t have to worry about how they would be perceived.
I have always struggled with my weight. Since I was about 10 or 11 I started getting big. I…
What happened this month
The best stories aren’t the ones where everything goes right.
It’s usually the stories where everything goes wrong.
The stories where you were in the middle of nowhere and the bus broke down and you had to walk for hours and hours to reach the…
write your heart in, she saidwhat’s left when you write her out anyway?
I’m very excited to begin this journey, I think. I stopped blogging for a year and a half now, and I miss it. I miss every comment, every critic, every post, every story. I miss the randoms, routines and fandoms.
Yes, I genuinely had some fans.
Night — 1AM // Interior — Taxi cab.
Kasey has picked up her first customer of the evening from McCarren International Airport, their destination is Planet Hollywood on the Las Vegas strip. POV in front of driver, looking over the whole cab’s interior the world can be seen moving through the back window.
Writing is an act of applied thinking, but all the good stuff ends up last. This is the wrong way around for your (attention poor) reader.
Hoist the good stuff to the top, your reader can read on if they want to see the detail.
“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.” Johann Von Goethe
The blue bar blinks, beckoning.Blipping a message, not in dots or dashes.
But flashes. Flashes of words and messages I really want to say but maybe it’s true…
Menulis itu butuh kemauan. Untuk menulis yang lebih dalam lagi butuh keberanian. Sebelum mengikuti beberapa kali pertemuan kelas menulis di KMO, yang saya pikirkan tentang menulis hanya bagaimana caranya untuk mendapatkan uang dari sana.
Karena motivasi uang itu justru menghambat saya untuk menulis 😞 Kenapa?? Karena saya…
Every now and then, I see it. A request for a writer to write more, for an…
The Horse Lords — Prologue
Barghal lay the three berries on the table beside a small brazier. They glowed in the…
Imagine you’ve just been in a car accident. An aggressive introduction, I know, but hear me out. Now…
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
IV. Cold scars carved on her back. Eternal scripture from a time past. A poisoned trust.
For students who are studying abroad, the writing of English papers is quite difficult. After all, domestic students are not familiar with this writing habit. Don’t say anything else, but the references in the English papers must be noted. If…
Yesterday morning I got up at about 2:15 and the first thing that hit my brain was that it was Dad’s birthday. For…
Mobile Blogging: How it will revolutionize not only the writing but the human progress.
Ever since, we invented writing and documentation of our thoughts, human race was never so fast before, we started from writing on stone tablets and few people involved in contributing to the world but with friction in writing creates…
Sam was so uncomfortable.
Bleach and lemon-cleaner suffocated Sam’s nostrils and tickled the back of her…
How many of ya’ll love to write, but at the same time HATE to read long ass stories? Are we the selfish ones of the writing world? Like, ‘“everyone read what I have to say, but please, get to the point of your story, my brain can only process so much of you.” Yeah, maybe we are selfish.
Getting lost is never fun. The feeling of uncertainty, the feeling of being as far from control as possible, where your path depends not on some carefully calculated plan but on the happenstance of fate. The idea that no skill nor practiced study can aid you in your escape from the situation you find…
Writing with authenticity/voice is something I see echoed over and over from all those I consider the best writers. Forcing it is important in some ways — work certainly doesn’t magically finish itself — but so is knowing when not to.
As an emerging writer (or at least, I F’n hope to be), there’s two quotes I love to think…
There are times in your life when you are free like a bird, when you actually have a choice to do what you want to do–like a…
Please Don’t Read This: How not to be a mediocre, boring writer.
Unless you are a well-known blogger, author, or journalist, there is an excellent chance…
Here is a piece I was asked to write for the Center for the Study of Technology and Society that traces the surprising history of the term “Judeo-Christian,” which has held several different…
I write things about you, you know that?
I remember all of the times we’ve spent together, or overlapped — at the very least. Like how we passed each other at the hallway, I remember it. I remember everything, because I wrote it down.
To all those years of maturity,
Five Summers 5/15
Sodium streetlamps & rectangles of misty light,burning up all my Michelangelo’s tonight…
Totally agree on the writing every day and not being afraid of shitty first draft. I think of writing as a muscle, more you write, more you work it out. My science fiction story book “Time Crawlers” had to undergo multiple revisions before I felt they were worth publishing. Thanks for this article.
I hadn’t seen Tom for several years.
Writer-Artist Five: Annie Proulx
“It is a kind of pleasurable note-taking.” ~ Annie Proulx
Motivation is fickle.
Or at least, that’s what I’ve been telling myself.
Every day for the past few weeks, give or take several blurry mornings, I’ve been engaged in a little experiment. I’ve been freewriting.
Hero’s Chord
How do you make peace with the eye of a storm, the swift rendition of any and all forgotten lore-
On the cusp of ash was it not where man was born, I suppose we should ask ourselves how the eye was formed.
How to write a successful essay assignment is not one of the mysteries of the universe. Like other content learned in various courses, assignment writing skills can be taught and deserve to be the focus of a subject…
Five Summers 6/15
i think you gotta few more heartbreaks to gobefore you can really meet metake a few more shots@…
An environment to free what true thoughts consume minds.
Its fresh reminder of what flourishing can be.
A place to admire the growth that surrounds us.
To voice our opinions and beliefs in a somewhat deafening silence.
To quote Shia Labeouf…
“Just do it!”
He-Man was my favorite action figure. He fell in the sewer but bobbed happily. Betrayed, I left him.
I being feeling so busy all the time and the reasons tend to be ridiculous for me and one of my main argue with myself about that it’s because I never feel like I’m…
July 27th was the one-year anniversary of the death of Sam Shepard, writer-actor-director. Someone I always felt in…
Balancing A Side Hustle With The Rest Of My Life
Side Hustle Blues
I had forgotten about this day until I pulled up the script from the podcast episode I released on August 9th of last year, where I gave…
It has now been two weeks roughly since I started the writing challenge.
I’m my own worst enemy when it comes to writing. It’s not that I don’t have have the ability, or the ideas — I’ve got heaps of both. I just don’t have the discipline to follow a regular writing routine.
Congrats! Reality rules, the heck with all this romanticism.
I’ve been busy for the past week. Learning, reading, coding, and writing/fiddling with a very specific project.
I usually post some kind of writing tips or motivational stuff every week on Thursdays. Even as I started website work on the…
Totally get it! I’m the same — I struggle with writing about my real experiences but my imagination never fails me. Also, I’m weaving a lot of real stuff into created worlds, including poetry, but only I know it’s there. I’m always conscious that I may hurt someone because you never write only about yourself, right? That’s why I suck in personal…
Smell has always been the most powerful agent of nostalgia. One whiff of a perfume long since smelled, or a dish long since forgotten can impel to the forefront of the mind the most vivid recollections. I had thought this method of unwarranted recall unsurmountable in its effectiveness, but I have begun to doubt…
I can’t even plan to come back to this post when I’m less distracted by kids and have more time. I have to tell you now, that this is one of my favorites so far. And you’re daughter is Freaking adorable. Keep up the good work Mama. Thank you for your inspiration every day. 💓
Eric has confirmed to Gwen that he has a topic.
In his usual fashion, James, he gave no hint as to what it might be.
The office of the Comma is to show the slightest separation which calls for punctuation at all. It should be omitted whenever possible. It is used to mark the least divisions of a sentence.
I am so excited to be here. I hope you are equally excited to have me. How bizarre that you have been around since 2012 and I only…
Prospect
The standards of poetry have gone down.So has the mankind.Writings have taken wings.Writers are flying.So is the mankind.
Thanks, Gwen Saoirse! This is a fabulous digest of last week’s selections. Thank you SOOOOOOO much for freeing up some of my time so I could focus on my novel.
Next chapter comes out early tomorrow morning. And I’m still not wasting any time. Sparks are flying already. In the romantic sense!
He could never tell her.
Four years ago, in a mobile classroom in a kind-of-preppy middle school in a hot city in the northern border of…
Welcome one and all to my personal Medium page. This is a new place to catch all of my ramblings on political happenings and other things that may catch my fancy from time to time.
Obrigado Dani! Espero um dia ser famoso como você :)
I feel so alone
I know I’m not
Yet I have no one to call
And the night is starting
The bed isn’t as comfortable
My thoughts are running wild
Description: Most of the students do not have enough time to work on their essay. Therefore, they delegate the work to essay writers. However, they do not focus on the fact that to get a distinction, they need to get service from the…
Muito obrigado! Não teria sido possível sem você!
That’s hilarious. :)
Whether you are studying in college, college, or university, you need to be familiar with a struggle of writing countless essays. Finding another job similar to this could be bothersome, especially if there’s not any specific issue and you’re not good at…
Essayssos is one of the best online educational website providing essay writing services for their students all over the world.They provide a wide range of writing services which includes Academics essay writing services, thesis writing services and…
Fountain pens’ nibs wear away at different angles depending on the owner’s handwriting. A well used pen might create scratchy writing when used by somebody else. Mark Twain is reputed to have said, “A man should lend out neither his pen nor his wife — and, by preference, not his pen.”
Hope Is A Blade Of Grass:
I was born into a Doomsday Death Culture. The psychological control and manipulation has long lasting effects, so does nature. This is where I find my answers and know to always have hope.
I step outside to look at the blade of grass coming up through the cracks in the…
Speaking of science and writing, there is an event at the American Writers Museum in downtown Chicago on August 16th: A Celebration of Science Writing. Annie Minoff (Undiscovered podcast host), author David Quammen, and others will be there! Tickets…
It’s all just stories
None of its real
I do it for the claps
I do it for the thrill
I write poems on the fly
Little effort, no real try
Thank you so much for this quick response. I use Trello for my overall daily grind, but haven’t thought about using it for writing prompts. I’ve been keeping those in Evernote, but I think this is SO much more visual. OK, you’ve inspired me. Thank you!
Yeah, that 275,000 word goal for the summer?
Shot to pieces.
I may have only done about 10,000 words.
It’s paltry.
So, what happened?
Writer’s block, not at all a fun challenge to accept. We inevitably meet our nemesis at one time or another.
Writer’s block is as old as the world. Not only writers, every artist in one way or the other experiences this problem.
Looking forward to the next chapter, James!
Eric has no shortage of ideas, but he hasn’t shared with me which one he’s sending our way. I’m confident that it will be decidedly brilliant. I’m afraid to go poking around in the depths for a clue because you just never know what might turn up…
Thank you so much for your kind words, Kyrie! Honestly, this comment just made my day ^_^ I’m so glad that you found it helpful. Best of luck with your podcast — it’s definitely a medium that a scripted show can have a lot of fun with! =)
Were you born already a wonderful, poetic writer? I will listen to your response with my eyes. 💋
I agree. Writing does wonders for the soul. And, when you share your writings you inspire others, and in a strange way create accountability, which helps you change yourself.
Thanks for the reminder. I’ve recently become quite busy and need the reminder.
“I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is…
A few months after I graduated from high school in Boston, I took a job at a non-charitable thrift store by the harbor called…
It’s a little difficult for me to answer this question because I’ve been creating every day since…
Wonderful articles. When you say you’ve written this much every day because you’ve got to get it out — your thoughts, emotions, etc — how do you select what you write about, or keep what you write about from being too much like a personal diary?
Meander
Like a sparrows flock
The rippled water
Do you ever wonder how stuff works, or why some phenomena are baffling, yet others are easily explained? I’m a high school student interested in STEM. In this blog I will write about “sciency” things that interest me and hopefully are interesting to others too. I welcome comments…
