For years, I existed on the internet as “Awakedragon.” (I think my Twitter handle might still be that.) I’m claiming my own name now, but as a nod to my beginnings, this is now the AwakeDragon Blog!
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Why You Can Write Two Books at Once… If One Is In A Series
I began this post with the inclination that you shouldn’t write two books at once. Yet, the more I’ve researched the topic, the more I found that writing two books at once can actually be very beneficial. I understood the cons of writing two books at once as this: if you’re working on two things at once,…
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Oh Canada, Oh Canada…
So I’ll be gone for two weeks! My parents are taking my sister, my partner, and I up to Canada, to some city I can’t spell to save my life (the French, man), but it’s 2 hours North of Montreal. I’m pretty excited about that. Then we’re heading to a cute town called Poughkeepsie, and then…
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Staying True To Your Story: A #FicFest Update
When revising your manuscript with an editor, how do you handle all of the changes when it can feel like the story isn’t yours anymore? Well, first you have to look at that sentence and realize it’s misleading. If you’re making a change (based on advice, your own realizations, or aliens controlling your brain), it’s still YOU…
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Rambling Advice on Editing: #FicFest Update
I have zero desire to write this blog post, but I’m doing it anyway. I skipped/missed last week’s post, somewhere between laziness, picking up my (almost) mother-in-law for her month long stay, and furiously editing my manuscript for FicFest. So as I write this week’s, and I figure as long as I keep rambling, something will…
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Writer Validation: FicFest Mentee
There are a few social-media implemented competitions out there which can really help a writer gain some exposure and some help from a great writing community. Like, most people know what #PitMad and #PitchMadness are. Well, I discovered a new one the other day called FicFest. So, being the ever-eager-to-do-everything author-to-be I am, I submitted. It’s a…
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A Weird Moment with Romance
Most of my stories since I hit 14 have held some element of romance. I remember being in my teens and being highly frustrated that my head always veered sharply in a romantic direction with whatever story I’d created. I wanted to write complex, engaging stories that taught people something new and dissected an element of human…
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Completing Camp NaNoWriMo
Camp NaNoWriMo technically isn’t over yet, but I set a low word count goal (as I was working on a novella) so I completed it with time to spare. Unlike with NaNoWriMo and it’s pressure for a 50k goal, I don’t feel there were as many lessons learned. Probably because I had time to play…
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Results of the “Trope Outline”
If you read my Tropes Outline post, you know that I’ve been working on an outline that follows the main tropes of my story. There was a bit of delay in my posting about the results of it, mostly because Camp NaNoWriMo hit and now I’m focused on writing the thing the outline is for vs. the outline itself.…
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Randomness is Awesome: Siblinghood of the World Blogger Award
HEY LOOK RANDOM THINGS ABOUT ME. I was nominated by Jenna Brownson to take part in this “siblinghood of the world blogger award.” So, basically, I answer ten questions, and pass it on by asking ten other bloggers ten original questions. (Jenna decided to move to five questions and five bloggers instead of the ambitious ten) Jenna’s answers…