EVERY WRITERS FIVE DS

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(PS: I love the apostrophe, and think it's important but the internet spider that scans our sites takes an instinctive dislike to this: Every writer's Five Ds)

I know not to whom I should give credit for these wise words, gleaned somewhere, but they have been an inspiration to me. I return to them often should I be suffering from Writer's Cramp, a sort of mental Tennis Elbow!

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Basic writing ability is not enough. The would-be novelist must also observe what I call the five 'Ds':

1. D for Desire--the desire to want to write that novel more than anything else.

2. D for Drive--the drive to get started.

3. D for Determination--the will to continue whatever the stumbling blocks and difficulties encountered on the way.

4. D for Discipline--the discipline to write every day, whatever your mood.

5. D for Dedication to the project until the very last page is finished.

Finally, there is a sixth D - to avoid! This is for Distractions - perhaps the most important D of all, the enemy of all writers, whether would-be or proven."

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Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

Anybody like to write me a paragraph using all of them?!!!

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