Umbrella
At this point, the umbrella seemed superfluous and ...
Artist Date or Field Trip:
The local coffee shop, your coat closet, the back of your car ... these are the places you'll find an umbrella. Go there now and report your findings. Better yet, carry an umbrella around all day with you and describe the reaction.
Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus writes: "Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute."
INKDrop:
Your readers hope to have a lovely time reading your work ... a lovely short time. So wasting their time with extravagant and poorly edited writing will make them unhappy. Find a piece you've written lately and chop it up. Yep, take everything out that's not the bare bones skeleton of what you wrote. Find out what you really said without the art. In the midst of beautiful prose, did you also tell the story or convey the information? Now gingerly decide exactly what bits of beauty should be restored to the piece. (Hopefully all of it!)
Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is coming!! Go sign up!
Competition idea: Grab a literate friend or two, agree on the topic today, and write. Maybe 1000 characters (fits in your cell phone notepad), or 500 words (our gold standard), or longer. Then share your work with somebody and ask them to select their favorite effort from today. You might be surprised how much you love winning (or hate losing).
And stop by our old home page and see if we've managed to catch up.
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