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How to write for 14 years without missing a day and never run out of ideas.

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:April 20, 2019
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I’ve been blogging since 2005. I have not missed a day, even when scumbag cowards attempted to derail my career by blatantly mischaracterizing what I write and portraying me as…

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Memorize some poems

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:April 19, 2019
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I took a class in college on poetry. I wasn’t a poet, nor did I want to be a poet, but my creative writing advisor thought that writing poetry might…

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I don’t have time to save time

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:April 18, 2019
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The question I get asked most often is “How do you get so much done?”I’m working on a proposal for a book that answers that very question in great detail.…

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Last times

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:April 17, 2019
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One of the books I hope to write in the next couple years will be a nonfiction account of my attempt to try things that I was once did in…

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Religion on the decline. Thankfully.

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:April 16, 2019
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The latest Harris and Pew polls indicate that the fastest growing religious belief is no religious belief at all. For the first time since these polls have been taken, “no…

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Speak Up Storytelling: Jeffrey Freiser

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:April 15, 2019
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On episode #45 of the Speak Up Storytelling podcast, Matthew and Elysha Dicks talk storytelling!In our followup segment, we offer some corrections on previous episodes and read an email from…

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Strangeness of Vermont

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:April 14, 2019
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I spent two days in Burlington, Vermont earlier this week, teaching attorneys to tell stories and prepare witnesses and clients to tell stories. I took a few photographs while I…

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Try new things. Aggressively, relentlessly, and constantly.

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:April 13, 2019
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Chase your dreams but also try new things. Ever since I was 17 years old, I was chasing my dreams of being a professional writer. In 1987, I was writing…

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Billions with a B

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:April 12, 2019
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I’d like to officially dispense with the phrase:“That’s billion with a B.”I'd like to eliminate it from the world forever. Make it extinct. Destroy every bit of it.Have you ever…

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A picture is worth so much more than 1,000 words

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:April 11, 2019
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Is there anything better than a six year-old boy falling asleep while reading his book?

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