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The #PubLaw Twitter Talks
Twitter is a marvelous thing, and holds many opportunities for us writers. Whether it’s connection with fellow writers, support, or reaching a broader audience, it’s a great resource for writers of all walks of life. I particularly like the ‘talks’ that are held to spread knowledge and general writer love all throughout the online writing…
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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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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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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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Running with Ideas (Much safer than running with scissors)
You know what the great thing about writing is? If you are in the middle of researching something, and the theory may be really out there or the evidence is slim at best — and you can use it anyway. Because this is fiction, and taking based-in-reality-but-not-quite theories to build a world is fun. Well…
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My Black Hole of Pessimism for Today
Somehow I found myself weeding out those I follow on WordPress a few days ago (Don’t worry, I only cut those hadn’t posted something for over several months). WordPress has this feature where they tell you a blog hasn’t posted in forever when you click on it in your ‘Following’ list, which is equal parts helpful and annoying.…
