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17h ago
inOutlining beats freewriting for me, 60 drafts later
Wait, freewriting for 3 months straight?
1d ago
inMy kid rated all my jokes 1 through 10 last Tuesday and the worst one got the highest score
Ha, that is too funny! My daughter does the same thing where the jokes I think are total winners get a 2 and the weird ones she loves. What worked for us was letting the kids pick a joke of the week and we write it on a whiteboard on the fridge. Turns out they love the really silly ones with sounds or made up words way more than my clever ones. The one they beg for is this old one about a cow that goes to the moooovie theater, and it is honestly terrible. My advice is just lean into the dumb ones, because kids love when you get goofy and stop trying to be clever.
1d ago
inStarted one prompt notebook in January and by March I had 47 story starts
...wait, does jotting prompts count if you never go back and actually write the story?
1d ago
inA finisher in Cincinnati told me my trowel angle was wrong on a 4,000 sq ft pour
Man, that lift on the back edge is everything. I fought the same wavy mess on big box pours til a guy told me to quit laying the trowel flat like a pancake. Front third only, and the cream sets up so much tighter. Took me way too long to figure that out on my own.