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How to Stumble About World Building
I’ve always been a little envious of writers who are first and foremost “world builders.” They’ve got their history, culture, geography and general lay of the land allllll figured out while diving into their characters and plot. I’m such a character writer. I’ll get a picture in my head of two characters talking, or dancing, or…
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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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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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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…
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NaNoWriMo Update: Final Stretch
Alright, so this is more like an ending update vs. a week three update. But week three was good, anyway! There was a moment in the beginning where I was just skirting the line and I was afraid I was going to duck below it, but I managed to boost myself back up and keep…
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Animal Friends and Stick-Stealing
While out on a feeding frenzy by the trees, Sari, my newest dairy goat acquisition, decided to lay her head across my shoulders while I was sitting on the ground and snuggle. It was rather heart heart warming (even if it was after a half an hour of chewing cud in my ear), particularly since she’s…
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NaNoWriMo Update: Pantser, Plotter, Linear, Jumper
After spending the first almost two days of National Novel Writing Month doing pretty much nothing, I sat down at about 9 at night on the second day and wrote almost 2,000 words until about 2 in the morning. Then I got up the next (later) morning and wrote for a long time more until I hit…
