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10 STEP GUIDE TO COLUMN WRITING

9/10/2012

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Sooner or later, all columnists (or bloggers) on the eve of a deadline are brought to their knees. Eventually the blank gaze of a computer screen and an editor drumming impatient fingers on a far-off desk paralyses the columnist’s brain and both typing fingers. This week it’s been my turn.
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Kneeling abjectly before computer and editor, I have attained a pure emptiness of mind which only the Dali Lama achieves so effortlessly. 

Although this may seem an enviable state, it’s hell for the columnist: an empty mind is empty of everything which makes column-writing even remotely feasible: ideas, motivation, willpower and fear. Monkey-mind is the columnist’s only true friend.

However, I have not given in to the columnist’s usual urge to expound on the horrors of punitively regular deadlines. Instead, I have employed my temporary mental clarity to put together the following sure-fire ten-step writing guide for fellow sufferers of writer’s block. 


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    Ro Cambridge, is a freelance writer, 
    arts worker & columnist Here she reports on the oddities & serendipities of  urban life.  She roams Nelson city , NZ 
    with a tan & white Jack Russell. (Her original canine side-kick, Pete, who features in many of these posts died in 2015.

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