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My Writing Process: Editing to Smooth Out Your Baby
You finished the rewrite? Great! When you examine the first draft vs the second, the changes and improvements should be...
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My Writing Process: Rest, Review, and Rewrite
Yay! The first draft is done. Well done, that is an amazing accomplishment many people never reach. Celebrate! And take a...
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My Writing Process: The Painful First Draft
For the next collection of random tips I've learned from about creating a book, let's transition from outlining to writing....
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My Writing Process: The Outline
Starting a new project can be a daunting task and a novel is a big project. Figuring out your writing...
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Using swearing in writing
To swear or not to swear. This is the question many writers face. Swearing in writing is even more a...
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In Reading from the Stoic Seneca Today…
I started reading Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic today and, as expected, the first paragraph of the first page and...
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Poem: Until you have a home
First attempt at a poem I plan to use in a later book. If you’ve no home to stay, Keep...
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Planning out and writing character descriptions
When I first started writing, I’d see all the lists of character descriptions and traits that are recommended to have...
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A Quick Tip for Finding Writing Inspiration
Ahh, a new writing project. Or adding on to current ones. Whatever it is, there's nothing worst than running out...
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Stort Story: A Sucking Wound
The door was locked. Axel jiggled the handle again anyway. “What? Still no luck? Imagine that.” Martis’s rasping voice, dripping...
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It’s Fine to Feel Fear
My only (so far) trip to New York City was for a work convention. The convention was two days and...
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Diversity: Two meanings
This is a loaded word more than most others. I only want to spend a couple cents in it now....
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Relying on the Experts
Ah, the experts, whoever they are. It’s so nice we have people we don’t know in whom we can trust...
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Two Opposing Ideas
There are two quotes that both use this phrase (more or less), one from F. Scott Fitzgerald, and one from...
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David and Goliath
I was reading this story as I was thinking of what to write for today’s blog post. One thing that...
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Good Enough
Good enough? Wha— what blasphemy is this?! It must be perfect! (Whatever ‘it’ happens to be) Everyone knows (at least...
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Tips for the writing life
Here’s a short, non-extensive, list of somethings I do to make my writing life easier. 1. Coffee Coffee, tea, etc......
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