Cara Wallace likes writing, reading, music, cats, dogs, and her family. Not necessarily in that order. She lives on the west coast.
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Cara Wallace likes writing, reading, music, cats, dogs, and her family. Not necessarily in that order. She lives on the west coast.
Congratulations, Cara! The title is great, the photo gorgeous, and the blogging clever. You rock!
Regarding blocked: I just read a little something from Deena Metzger. To loosely paraphrase, concentrate on the very little things for a while. The color of the pebble. The look in the child’s eyes. The composition of the meal. Identify them and write about them. Write it somewhere where you won’t hit the backspace button, thus giving it honor. When you have your collection of Very Little Things, put them away and come back to them tomorrow, for they will tell a tale AS A GROUP when you are ready to listen.
Seems like extraordinary advise to me, as a huge proponent of the divide and conquer theory. If we are getting caught up in the details in our writing, then maybe that’s where we need to be, not because we are necessarily going to use them, but because they will help tell the story in the end.