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Robert Hamill

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    Category: Motivation

    Sometimes Something Happens
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    Sometimes Something Happens

    Robert Hamill 24 Oct 202315 Jun 2024Leave a comment

    Sometimes something happens and you just think, isn't that interesting.

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    Book Appreciation The Language of Thought
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    Book Appreciation The Language of Thought

    Robert Hamill 1 Feb 202326 Jan 2025Leave a comment

    Since I write about thinking, a review on Jerry Fodor’s The Language of Thought 1975 classic was a necessary research step. Jerry Fodor had a…

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    Writing 2019
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    Writing 2019

    Robert Hamill 24 Jan 202029 May 2022Leave a comment

    3 stories and 2 essays in Maryland Mensa M-Anation in 2019

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    Up a Steep Hill
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    Up a Steep Hill

    Robert Hamill 17 Dec 201830 May 2022Leave a comment

    As I rode my bike up the steep hill, I kept focused on the top of the hill

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    Zen in the Art of Writing
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    Zen in the Art of Writing

    Robert Hamill 12 Nov 201827 Apr 2022Leave a comment

    Following Bradbury's advice, I do a thousand words on stories, fleshing them out. Those that retain gusto, I go with and try to improve.

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    Words and Writing
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    Words and Writing

    Robert Hamill 15 Apr 201829 Apr 2022Leave a comment

    What else accounts for the difference most of us experience between the vigor of our speech and the difficulty of our writing?

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    People Like Stories

    Robert Hamill 5 Jul 201629 May 2022Leave a comment

    What drives people to read stories? Readers want to escape or they want to learn.

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    Writing Class

    Robert Hamill 24 Jun 201229 May 2022Leave a comment

    "Story" is the events in the narrative, while "plot" is the logical and emotional relationships between the events.

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    On Writing Well – William Zinsser

    Robert Hamill 4 Nov 201129 May 2022Leave a comment

    Subtitle: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction Good, solid advice.

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    Creative Writing Feedback

    Robert Hamill 7 Sep 201129 May 2022Leave a comment

    Good feedback from teacher last night on a sample beginning I wrote up. He said that it wasn't clear, soon enough who the main character…

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    Measure of Daily Life

    Recently deceased hoisted by adults and societyTo cumulus heaven, adding Family myths and hard-earned lessonsTo guide our daily lives. Good and evil tally Yet change…

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