Yes, I failed at National Novel Writing Month this year. Well, I don’t know if “failed” is the word I should use, though. I still managed to write over 18K words in the first half of the month. So really it’s not a total failure. Maybe I should say I didn’t “win” NaNo. By the […]
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This year hasn’t been an easy one for me. It’s one of those years that I am ready for it to be over. Have you ever had one of those years? Everything that could happen did. While I won’t go into details here, the people closest to me know the circumstances. As Thanksgiving approaches, I
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Back in April I published my second fiction novel. I had published the first one in June 2013 so I wasn’t too upset with myself for the length of time between novels. Writer’s block has gotten me, though. No matter how hard I try to motivate myself to do some writing I can’t get going.
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About a month ago I wrote a review about a book called Easy Cash Writing. It’s a great book that taught me quite a bit so I decided to give another of Rob Parnell’s books a chance. This time I read The Easy Way to Write a Novel That Sells. It’s as informative as his
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Some people may or may not agree with me. Scrivener has changed how I write my novels making it so much easier. When I first started writing years ago, I used the old-fashioned pen and paper to write the story and then a typewriter to make it look “professional,” or as professional as it could
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Less than two weeks from today writers everywhere will be in a writing frenzy. Yes, National Novel Writing Month begins. Are you one of those writers? Are you ready for November 1? Last week I wrote about three reasons why you should do NaNoWriMo. Now that I see I have talked you into doing this
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Twenty five years ago I heard about National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. I thought about how crazy it was. I mean writing a novel in 30 days? Sure, I would love to write a novel, but I wasn’t sure about writing it in 30 days. There was no way I would ever find the
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Have you ever wanted to be a freelance writer? I have since I was a young kid. However, I never really thought about making my dream come true until last spring when I lost my full-time job. I had already been doing some proofreading as a way to earn extra money. I hadn’t gotten rich
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Do you belong to a local writers group? By local writers group, I mean a group that physically meets at least once a month, not something you find on Facebook. If not, have you ever thought about joining one? Perhaps no writers group exists in your area. Have you thought about starting one? Last winter,
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Have you ever had a day when you had several writing ideas floating around in your head? Do you have trouble focusing to put words on paper? Maybe you have no ideas in your head at all, but you want to write something that day? Writing every day is the best way to keep ideas
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