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Art Is Never Finished: AKA beta-reading round two
You know that feeling when you’ve quoted a phrase for years, but then something happens that gives you a much deeper understanding of it? Read about my realization with this quote here!
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How to streamline your manuscript
I want to share my process on how I recently took a 160k word manuscript to 126k without killing myself or the heart of the story. I’m a character writer. I love immersing myself into places and relationships, and playing out heart stories within epic worlds and situations. That can lead to a lot of…
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My Beta-Reading Experiment
My soft marshmallow self actually sent my manuscript to people to be critiqued. Here’s what I did.
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Twisting Writing Journeys
It is with a bittersweet heart that I announce PRIDEM and the Obsidian Divide series will no longer be released by Glass House Press. After three great educational years working together we have decided to go our separate ways. Glass House Press has shifted gears — I absolutely wish them the best of luck in…
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NaNoWriMo2017 – Week One
This year’s National Novel Writing Month just happened to coincide with the first time I’ve been out of work in a while. I work for a temp company, and my assignment ended the last day of October (fun day, having the last day be Halloween!). Until they give me another assignment (or I find another…
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AWAKEDRAGON: NaNoWriMo 2017
Well then, NaNoWriMo starts in two days. I did my typical ‘I know what I’m doing!’ and then panicked waffling about a week ahead of time. I’m actually going to be working on the same project I worked on last year: only from a different perspective. Thanks to lovely brainstorming partners, I’ve got a handle…
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Surprise!
I wrote 52,000 words in 23 days. As of now, I’ve written 59k in 27 days, and that’s not with what I will write today. This is definitely the most I’ve ever written for NaNo! It comes as a surprise, considering how much I disliked this manuscript about two weeks ago. I hit a stride… as…
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NaNoWriMo Update: Tough First week
I knew this NaNoWriMo was going to be a little different, mostly because of how busy I am compared to the previous years I participated. But it was a real struggle to keep up with word counts! Most of this can be attributed to the lack of real time I had (thus the lateness of this blog post).…
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Obligatory “What am I doing for NaNo” Post
Synopsis for the win: The banished king of the Underworld has a plan: kidnap one of the Fertility Daughters, who’s magic powers the prosperity of the Overworld, and force her to marry his son to save his people from starvation. Fox, one of the seven Fertility Daughters of her generation, wants more from life than to…
