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Posts Tagged ‘quilting and writing’

Don’t Push The River; It Flows By Itself: Creativity and Deadlines

By Emilie Richards | March 18, 2010 | 0

Sometimes, there are no words.  It’s that simple.  There are entire days, sometimes stretching to weeks, when putting together an intelligent sentence is a remarkable challenge.  Most often these days occur when I’m writing a synopsis. A synopsis is a story summary. Picture me sitting down over coffee one morning to give you a blow by…

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