← Previous – TW3C – Next → WRITER’S FATIGUE We are all subject to writer’s fatigue. In the beginning, I used to get stuck on a writing project in which, after time, I lost interest. That’s when writing becomes boring. My solution is to
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← Previous – TW3B – Next → Right Contents What is important is to get my facts straight. If I print false or incorrect information, I will find myself at loggerheads with both my publishers and my readers. Passing on inaccurate or false information
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← Previous – TW3A – Next → GETTING STARTED It was a tough road I went down to become a writer but I was no exception. Most writers have to go down that same road. When someone tells me they are interested in writing,
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← Previous – TW2C – Next → Perfect, But with More Distractions Another place where I was convinced that I would be able to write was aboard my schooner, Third Sea. That’s what I thought when I built the vessel in Singapore and sailed
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← Previous – TW2B – Next → Unusual Distractions But that damned monkey was something else. Keith loved animals. He was run out of Bangkok for his love of animals. He had a brown bear he called Hash. He kept Hash on a leash
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← Previous – TW2A – Next → THE PERFECT PLACE TO WRITE? I had always heard it said that one needs the right environment to write. That is more or less so, but what is the right environment? It’s not easy to define. What
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← Previous – TW1C – Next → Agonizing First Published Article In New York, I went to see the managing editor of Argosy, Milt Machlin. During the next twenty-four hours, I learned more from Milt Machlin than I did from all the books I
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← Previous – CH1B – Next → Discouragement from family When I went out into the streets of New York and began walking, I was heartsick. No one was going to help me. The world was against my being a writer, everyone, my own
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← Previous – CH1A – Next → DEFYING THE ODDS The first question people ask, when they learn I am a writer, is how I get started. Then other questions follow: Was it difficult? Did I study writing in school? Do I enjoy writing?
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