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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
