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And for all the writers out there wondering how to develop a writing “habit” or how to establish discipline and/or a consistent writing practice, you might want to read the essay E.H. Jacob wrote for Hippocampus Magazine. Read the essay on Hippocampus here.

He’ll give you his strategies of how he writes even when he’s busy.

For a taste, see this excerpt:

When I’m working on a piece, I have dialogues and character interactions going on in my head all the time — sometimes background, sometimes foreground, but always there. It’s like my brain is split between two parallel worlds that co-exist in the same space and time. So, I would always have my computer open on my desk, and if I had just ten, or even five, minutes between patients or phone calls, I would quickly empty as much as I could of what was in that literary part of my brain into a document on my computer, to be continued, refined, revised or discarded later.

And for those of you lingering in the in-between space, knowing you have a story to tell but unsure if you are “writer enough” to tell it or thinking that you don’t have the skills— mark your calendars for Saturday May 31. Larry Sceurman and I will deliver a interactive talk on Storytelling as a First Draft, where Larry will encourage you to develop your story (whether for entertainment or to preserve a family legacy or share a personal lesson) and hopefully I can scare away any fear of grammar or other technical issues that keep people from putting pen to paper. That will be at 10:30 a.m. at Hellertown Area Library, 409 Constitution Ave., Hellertown, Pa.