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CNTRL-F is My Best Friend
My manuscript is complete. It’s an odd sensation, because I’m not getting the urge to jump up and down and squeal excessively (or collapse in a bed and sleep) as I thought I would. There’s a mellow satisfaction, along with the itchy sensation that I need to start pruning filter words and honing down my query.…
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This Fallow Ground
This is a good point to keep in mind! I find myself doing my best story plotting and character development doing things besides writing.
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One Scene Left, adsjfkafhjdnsaf!!
I’m seriously one scene away from having a completed novel and I CAN’T SEEM TO WRITE IT. WHAT IS MY PROBLEM? It’s like a spying/knowledge discovery scene where she sneaks around a psych ward after getting invited in on an internship. I’ve actually written a page of it (it helps me to start a new document…
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New Year Resolutions and Other Blah
Resolutions: write at least three times a week and blog at least once a week. Ta-da! There you go. Okay, sure, this post is a few days late… about four. But it’s my once a week, right? My writing groove seems to have returned after several weeks of blah here and there. Not that that’s…
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Exciting Announcement: First Official Publication
It’s happened. My first official publication has officially happened. One of my short stories, titled “Fire Alarm Testing,” was accepted into the third volume of the Analekta anthology a few months ago; and it has just been released. I’m feeling really good about this. I’ve gotten a lot of compliments on my writing and some advice as to where to…
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Why You Should Ignore 90% Of Expert Writing Tips
Very good advice to keep in mind
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Love Triangles: [Insert That Overused Line From A Robert Frost Poem]
This is an excellent, excellent post that has some great points.
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NaNoWriMo: Concluding Thoughts
50,454 words completed in 30 days (well, more like 28). It’s a bit after NaNoWriMo actually completed- but better late than never, right? (I would like to find an example of something where being late IS worse than never) Anyway, I finished my 50k in the wee hours of the morning on November 30th after writing through the…