by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes the best pieces of writing are still from simple tools and strong emotions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I recently read yet another post from a writer about how in the world you can write while you are traveling or on vacation or something or other that perplexes those who attempt to write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ten years ago I was on an overnight flight from one place to another. The places don’t matter; I was stuck in an airplane seat for eight hours. I had my laptop computer, but the seating was too cramped to open the lid and type words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I had a pencil and one of those $1 composition notebooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And I was angry about something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Simple tools; strong emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I wrote for hours. I filled 20 pages with words. I still pull out that old notebook and look at the words of that trip. They are some of the best writing I have done in the last 20 years. I won’t share what I wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The science fiction writer Ray Bradbury advised writing about things that scared you\u2014things that brought strong emotions. I think Bradbury, maybe it was another famous science fiction writer of the 20th century, would rent a typewriter in a library to write. Yes kids, people used to rent mechanical typewriters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Simple tools and strong emotions. Write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not a writer but a painter or an engineer or a chef? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Same advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes the best pieces of writing are still from simple tools and strong emotions. I recently read yet another post from a writer about how in the world you can write while you are traveling or on vacation or something or other that perplexes those who attempt to write. Ten years ago […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,32,15,421,67,5],"tags":[228,154,137,422,187,128],"class_list":["post-4451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authentic","category-communication","category-notebook","category-remote-work","category-work","category-writing","tag-authentic","tag-communication","tag-notebook","tag-remote-work","tag-work","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4452,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions\/4452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}