A Couple Dozen of My Favorite Slides

(After I Learned to Hate Bullet Points)

“A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.” –William Strunk, Jr.

Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page. -Stephen King

Discover Ideas

“The first step in beginning to write

is to think of yourself as a writer.”

“Make the tale live for us in all its many

bearings, O Muse.”T.E. Lawrence, The Odyssey

Sacred Places

101 Things You Can Do with a

Styrofoam Cup!

“All you have to do is write one true sentence.

Write the truest sentence you know.”

FOUR MAJOR OBSTACLES

“The difference between the right word and the

almost right word…

Hero Up!

What would you like to change?

What are you waiting for?

“I don't care much about music.

What I like is sounds.”

“It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.”

Needs of the Audience

Writer’s Purpose

Order is light, peace, inner freedom, self-determination: it is power.”-Henri F. Amiel