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Susie Mawhinney's avatar

You seem to pack more and more into this every week Barrie! That desk! And that studio in the woods! You'd never get me out...

I haven't read Pamela's Earth day post yet, though I don't doubt the quality of her content,(Pamela I'll be right with you) and your Little Butterfly was and still is my favourite of all your stories.Thank you, for all you do and especially for including a paragraph from my favourite walk ever!

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

"Good design is as little design as possible: less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity."

I feel the same way, specifically, about writing fiction, Barrie. That is why I have practiced so much with 50-word stories. It has been helpful to me -- I can easily see the results when I refer back to what I was writing three years ago. I now try to go straight to the heart of a story, often beginning in the middle, and including only the details that drive the story forward, no sidetracks.

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