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Pip: Born To Write — where the blog asks the big questions, and the answers are refreshingly, stubbornly human. Mara: Chris Chonos has been putting thoughts to page across a handful of recent posts — covering travel and connection, the shape of a writing practice, and some genuinely grounded personal philosophy. Let's start with what…
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Pip: Born To Write — where the blog is the practice, the fiction is the experiment, and apparently Ireland is the answer to everything. Mara: Chris Chonos has been busy this week — writing about craft and competition nerves, publishing a run of flash and micro fiction, and reflecting on the places, choices, and principles…
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I have been doing plenty of free writing lately and slowly working on a story for a competition. It is on the prompt site I’m signed up on. I have entered a competition before and did fairly well on it. I’m still a little nervous to enter writing competitions, but I’m getting a little more…
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I have adopted a method of writing where I write scenes in no particular order and have created a table of contents for each scene. The document is all over the place but it seems to be working for me. I even have some notes on the side to keep other ideas to help combine…
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Pip: Born To Write — where flash fiction, life prompts, and airport complaints all share the same desk, and somehow it works. Mara: It does work, actually. Chris Chonos has been putting in the pages this week — fiction, poetry, personal reflection, and a few writing-tool experiments. We'll move through the writing practice, then the…
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I have decided to add to my new organized method of writing. Yes, it is nice to have some of the chaos out of my process. I decided to try a 30-day free trial of Scrivener. I have read all kinds of great reviews on the application and worked through the tutorial. I admit that…
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This week I’ve done plenty of writing and got my 250 words in each day but didn’t work on my book. I’ve been putting some ideas down more lately. I feel good about how the story is going and am excited to do some more work tonight and really start developing the meat of the…
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This piece I wrote is about a young boy called Silas who is a dreamer and wants to see the world. I truly enjoy flash fiction and can see this as a good start to something that could be in my book. I like to write ideas out in flash fiction sometimes. It is a…
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Pip: Born To Write — where the blog is the warm-up lap and the novel is the finish line nobody can quite see yet. Mara: That's the territory Chris Chonos is covering lately — the mechanics of building a writing practice, the standalone fiction scenes that practice produces, and the personal reflections that sit underneath…
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As I said before I do a lot of free writing and today I wrote 521 words. I do these in fast spurts to keep the mind active. I collect these pieces to add to the story I am writing. I feel good about this writing exercise and can tell that ideas are starting to…