Create Your Own Writing Exercise

In those hazy moments between heavy sleep and clear wakefulness, on a morning when I woke without an alarm in a room at once unfamiliar and like every other hotel room I’ve ever slept in, the sentence uttered itself in my mind as sharply as early sunlight through a window: Dan Foylton is flat. Where …

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Intensely Sensitive

I’m happy to be in Hurst, Texas, for the 2011 Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented Parent Conference, where this morning I’ll be speaking about how gifted children, young and old, “grow with intensity,” so it seems fitting to share the following thoughts here on being sensually intense (or overexcitable). One of the most …

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Make Your Weirdness Count

“[Writing] is the place where the things that make you weird, the things about yourself that you know are different and even difficult, count the most.” ~ Linda LaPlante, The Making of a Story Before we dive into weirdness, I must say how blown away I am by the response to yesterday’s post after it …

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Writer, Interrupted

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“I wasted time by reading emails whenever they came into my inbox. I noticed that once I had started reading the name of the sender, I read the first line of the text. Once I mastered that, I continued reading the entire message, and once I got to that point, I felt compelled to respond …

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