Some Writing Advice

Part of Slice of Life on Two Writing Teachers

You should carry a notebook
always
If you want to be a writer
Like me

So if you think of something
hear something
see something
you can collect it
to remember to write later

Any notebook will do
I use my notes App
Because I can’t be trusted
to carry more things around with me
I mean, are you kidding me?

Collect those stories and ideas
In meetings
During D&D Campaigns
(Especially, during D&D Campaigns)
Before you fall asleep

Only then will you
Really
Be a Writer
Like me

Just this past week I collected stories and ideas
In meetings:
You get to take the cactus in the end
During a D&D Campaign:
I might be intimidating without the mockery
And my personal favorite …
Before I fell asleep:
My sfuccte oh c oh dd
I be should get f in or hi if cjkefw

So much potential in
Collected ideas
Plus –
Never forget
revision, writers

I might be intimidating without the mockery
You get to take the cactus in the end

My sfuccte oh c oh dd
I be should get f in or hi if cjkefw

I may never know what I really wanted to write about the other night. But, at least I wrote it down. At least I wrote it down. Let that be a lesson to you, writers.

2 thoughts on “Some Writing Advice

  1. This is great! I just wrote my SOL post in a Notes App! It was my first time! Your raw writing reminds me of when I email myself in the middle of the night to remember vital reminders. The thoughts preserved in cryptic text that were frantically captured with eyes squinted and fingers relying on muscle memory in the dark.

  2. This poem is wonderful, and it’s absolutely what I needed to read today. Your nonsense sentence really struck a chord for me. How many times have I written something as a reminder or note to myself, only to look at it later and wonder what on earth I was thinking. The validation alone is PRICELESS. =))

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