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with the five classical canons of rhetoric

Linda Digby McFarland, M.A.

 

 


The Writer's Block

Hints, Announcements, Words of Wisdom


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Are you ready, with your pen or pencil poised above a clean sheet of paper, to invent?

Light a lavender candle, play instrumental music by your favorite artist, and sip a mug of hot, or refrigerated, Cafe Francaise.  Focus on your starting subject and write everything you think! 


Words of Wisdom

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"It's good to remember that you can't make anything without making a mess."   Sally C. Crisp, EdD

"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."    Samuel Butler

"I discourse; therefore, I am."  Michael Kleine, PhD

"I don't ever want to stop studying something!"         Donna Foss,  EdD

 "It's good to drift.  And drifting lets you clean up a lot of little details that finish unfinished thingys."      Margaret  A. Hoskins, PhD

"I heard the Jewish writer Chaim Potok say a true leader is never absorbed into the stream in which he swims. . . . The integrity of a leader often is shown in the stand he takes for right against mistaken popular concepts."      Fred Smith, Sr.

"I hereby promise . . ."         Michael Kleine, PhD

"Connect!  Connect!  Connect!  Get inside the head of the individual audience member.  Live inside his or her head for the duration of the speech."       Tom Peters

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."   Edmund Burke

"The smallest package I ever saw was a man wrapped up wholly in himself. "   Billy Graham

"I was born the year the Dead Sea got sick...."

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"You will improve just by the doing."     Diane Gaudynski

"Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape."  anonymous

"Many students struggle between striving for accuracy and focusing on creativity.  Being creative is so much more rewarding." Patty Jensen Kennedy

"Have no fear of perfection;  you'll never reach it."    Salvador Dali


 

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