Writing as a tool for life.

In the Mood By Elizabeth Cutright © 2012 The Daily Creative Writer How are you feeling today?  Are you having a good day?  Does anything seem possible?  Do you have a healthy list of things to look forward to?  Can you barely suppress a smile as you pounce on the keyboard or pull out that […]

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“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop” (Alice in Wonderland)

Starting Your Novel – Part 1 (A Special Multi-part report from a Writers Workshop) By Elizabeth Cutright  © 2012 The Daily Creative Writer So you want to write a book?  Perhaps you’ve already started – and restarted  – plenty of times already.  Either way, there’s always more to learn when it comes to writing long-form, […]

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A tune in a different key…

Memoria (Excerpted from Come As You Are, a novel in progress) By Elizabeth Cutright © 2012 The Daily Creative Writer   Hannah’s cousins were a disappointment.  Cliquish and silly, they pretty much ignored her – interloper that she was – once they’d exhausted all points of inquiry about life in California. Did she surf, they asked […]

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Life as a starting point.

Robots and Dinosaurs (From Come As You Are, a novel in progress) By Elizabeth Cutright © 2012 The Daily Creative Writer Hannah softly finished off the last verse of Old MacDonald had a Farm as her baby brother’s eyes fluttered closed. Fussy all day – probably due to all the cooing and cuddling as he […]

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“X” Marks the Spot

Where are you? By Elizabeth Cutright © 2012 The Daily Creative Writer Whenever my friends and I lose each other in a crowd or a super store, on of us will yell out “Marco” and wait for the answering “Polo!”  It’s goofy, but it never fail to make me smile.  It’s also reassuring – we’re […]

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You’re A Writer

You’re Not An Impostor I was at a party a few weeks back, and a friend of mine said something so witty, so original that I replied, “watch out, I’m going to steal that for my next story!” Everyone laughed, joking that their words were no longer safe in my company. “You bet,” I replied. […]

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