{"id":1763,"date":"2017-10-03T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2017-09-27T07:08:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:08:25","slug":"tools-for-personal-and-other-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2017\/10\/03\/tools-for-personal-and-other-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools for (Personal) and other Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Whether you’re writing letters to friends, creating a remembrance book, or writing a longer work, you need certain tools nearby to enable your process. Consider these ideas:<\/p>\n

1.Start with a notebook and pen or pencil. Handwritten ideas come from a different place in the brain than ideas composed on a computer. Consider writing your thoughts long-hand first. Then transpose them onto the card, journal. or computer for your finished piece. I think you’ll find the exercise enlightening.<\/p>\n

2. Gather your resources: a thesaurus, dictionary and one of my favorites, The Synonym Dictionary<\/em> by J.I Rodale (Rodale Press). That way you can locate the perfect word, color, etc.<\/p>\n

3. Look up quotations online to personalize\/embellish your writing. On the search bar type in “quotations about….” Several sites will pop up. Enjoy finding just the right quotation to encourage or beef-up you writing.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 living, <\/strong>for it is being conscious of living.\u00a0 (Anna Morrow Lindberg)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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  1. 4. Add flourishes with colored pens, borders, interesting paper and\/or interesting fonts and colors. Make the writing POP by making the edges and words jump off the page.<\/li>\n
  2. 5. Package your writing so the intended receiver or end result will show who you are and why you took the tie to write your thoughts.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Whether you’re writing letters to friends, creating a remembrance book, or writing a longer work, you need certain tools nearby to enable your process. Consider these ideas: 1.Start with a notebook and pen or pencil. Handwritten ideas come from a different place in the brain than ideas composed on a computer. Consider writing your thoughts long-hand first. Then transpose them onto the card, journal. or computer for your finished piece. I think you’ll find the exercise enlightening. 2. Gather your resources: a thesaurus, dictionary and one of my favorites, The Synonym Dictionary by J.I Rodale (Rodale Press). That way you...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,124,67],"tags":[259],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-84-ribbons","category-writing","category-writing-process","tag-tools-for-personal-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}