Tag: metaslice
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Four Things I’ve Learned in Four Years of Slicing: Slice of Life #sol19 22/31
This post was inspired by Lisa Keeler’s Six Things I’ve Learn in Six Years of Slicing. Reading makes me a better writer. I used to think that my propensity for reading slices before writing my own was a way to procrastinate, and in my first year, I didn’t allow myself to read before I had…
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10 Takeaways from a Month of Slicing: Slice of Life #sol18 31/31
Thanks to one of my favorite teacher bloggers, Melanie Meehan, for the idea for this post. I am sure you will laugh to see that “less is more’ is also one of my takeaways when you see how long this post is. I need to stop using time as an excuse. I have the time…
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How Have You Changed as a Slicer?: Slice of Life #sol18 30/31
This is my third year Slicing every day in March. Just like last year, I dithered and hesitated in the days leading up to March 1. Was I really going to do it? Did I have time? More importantly, did I have energy? I thought up plenty of excuses. But in the end, of course,…
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What I Think I Learned: Slice of Life 31/31 #sol16
I’ve been a holdout for years with the March Slice Challenge. I look forward to it every year as a reader, and I slice sporadically throughout the year, but I’ve never been so much as tempted to sign up for daily slicing before. Mostly out of concern for my readers. I didn’t think I could…
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Six-Word Memoirs About Slicing: Slice of Life 29/31 #sol16
Fishing for slices, baiting the hook To slice is to notice, wonder Are my eyes and ears open? Stuck. No thoughts. No words. Nothing. Check my email. More comments yet? Just one more cup of coffee Repeat lines, borrow structures and formats Should I write about folding laundry? Someone should write about folding laundry. No…
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Here, I Write: Slice of Life 26/31 #sol16
Here, I write. In the dining room, the heart of the house. The walls are the richest chocolate brown, but I’m thinking of repainting this summer. Maybe red. I love a red room. My office, the space I created for writing, is red. It’s upstairs on the very edge of the house. You get there…
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Some Thoughts on My Writing: Slice of Life 24/31 #sol16
What I like best is when there is a certain hardness to my writing. When it’s stripped. Bare. Long on the nouns and verb. Short on the adjectives and adverbs. In my mind, it’s rock or bone. Flinty and inevitable. The voice is the hardest to find. So slippery. Always hiding from me. I think…
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Mid-March Slice Manifesto Slice of Life 15/31 #sol16
Today’s Slice was inspired by Christy’s March Manifesto from the 2013 Slice of Life Challenge, Ruth’s Mantra: Why I Write, and a post Ruth linked to, Jeff’s Know What You’re About. Once again, House of Hawthornes provided useful instructions on Making Chalkboard Art on Picmonkey.
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Writing Warm-Up Slice of Life 12/31 #sol16
I open my notebook and write for a few minutes, chronicling the day, setting some intentions, writing around potential slices. If I get an idea I think I want to work with, I try out a few sentences. I always need that opening line before I can really start. I open a book to read.…
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Slice Exploder: Slice of Life 2/31 #sol16
I’m driving home listening to a new-to-me podcast, Song Exploder. In 15 minutes or so, a singer-songwriter explains one of their songs–where the inspiration came from, how they wrote it, why they played these particular notes, how the song resisted them, how they overcame the resistance and created something whole and right and good. I get…
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