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NaNoWriMo – One step forward, two steps back
Image from mysynonym.com For almost four years, I have been meeting my cousin, Mark Hoover, every Tuesday and Thursday to write. We write most days, sometimes stopping down to lament about kids, life,...
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Writing – Setback or Step Forward?
A couple of weeks ago, I realized that I had bungled a minor but important event in my novel. In the West, during cattle drives or cross-country immigration by schooner, when people died, they were...
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On Writing – Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men
Last Friday was supposed to be a great day. I finished the first draft of my novel at 2 am that morning and, when the sun rose, I was going to visit my mom for a long holiday weekend. Of course,...
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On Writing: Revisions – How many times do I have to do this?
I attended a workshop at the DFW Writers Workshop Conference called “Revision Hell.” If ever there was a workshop created with me in mind, that was it. The revision process is where I fall apart. Every...
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On Writing – I’m Finished. Next Rabbit Hole, Please.
Last month, I finished my first novel. I have been writing consistently for ten years, though not consistently well. I have four unfinished novels on my hard drive and too many story fragments to...
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On Writing – Scrivener and my writing process: I love it when a plan comes...
I think I’m going to love Scrivener. On my fourth day of using the writing program (the first two days I completed the the tutorial), I am cautiously optimistic Scrivener may streamline my writing...
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On Writing – Corridors of Imagination*
I recently finished watching the first season of Fringe. What better time to do so since the abbreviated fifth and final season, full of callbacks to first season Fringe cases, is on a mini-hiatus and...
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Throwing caution to the wind and announcing some good news, a month later.
I’ve sat on this news for a little over a month because a part of me is afraid it was all a dream. That it is too good to be true. That an email with the subject heading, “On second thought…” would hit...
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My Writing Process Blog Tour – YA Author A.M. Bostwick
When I asked A.M. Bostwick to participate in the My Writing Process Blog tour she agreed, with a caveat: she doesn’t have a blog. No worries, I said. We’ll post it on mine! Then she tagged three more...
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