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A writer's thoughts are a little different from those of other individuals. Writers are just always naturally looking for those tiny little pieces of life and living that will become the basis for their next article or story line. Little mental notes made, and tucked away, to be used at a later date. No opportunity is left unnoticed; even the simple task of yard chores on a sunny summer day, to a writer, means using your back yard as an inspiration for writing. It is amazing what is out there if you really stop to see what goes on in the yard around you. Writers see things differently from other people, and to be a writer you just have to fine tune this skill.

There are a million little ideas just sitting out in your backyard just waiting to be discovered, a thousand little lives that can be future characters in articles, stories, and books. You just have to take a much closer look at the world around you. A small white butterfly that flutters clumsily by, lands on a flower for a moment, and then carries on its way can be transformed by the imagination of a writer. The butterfly becomes a tiny little fairy maid just learning how to fly; innately curious and completely fascinated, she investigates the magic forest that surrounds her.

A large black beetle crawling along the ground becomes a heavy war tank pushing its way through enemy lines, strong and determined, never knowing what might lie ahead. The blades of glass are the foliage of a jungle where little creatures hide in wait for prey to come their way. The earthworms that he scoops up in the garden are dragons in a foreign land, scurrying and hissing, trying to find their way back home.

A writer feels the warmth of the sun and imagines a sunny beach, a cool drink to quench his thirst, and he is surrounded by memories that he has yet to experience. A love story in a faraway land springs into the writer's mind. He glances over at his own partner in life, his lady fair, and he creates in his mind a character within his play. His wife curses as she picks up a splinter on the dry wood deck that he has yet to paint and he creates the fire spirit of the woman in his tale. She will be a true vixen, an amazon, a woman of more than just words, she will be fire and ice combined, just like his wife.

The mental images that he can turn into words fill his mind as he tries to capture each feeling, sensation, and thought. The sound of the wind in the trees, a bird's voice, a squirrel's angry rant, the slamming of

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