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Plan, Plan, Plan
I’ve been traveling and dissertation writing and haven’t worked on fiction in a week. But I have been reading K.M. Weiland’s Outlining Your Novel and I think I know why I tend to hit 20,000 words and...
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Happy Happy Joy Joy
The first draft of Brave in Heart is complete. Here is a teensy-weensy teaser of the conclusion. Aren’t “the end” the most beautiful words in the English language? Brave in Heart has been entered in...
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NaNoWriMo-ing
Are you participating in NaNoWriMo? I am! I’m bending the rules a bit, trying to write the last 50,000 words to finish a manuscript that is already begun — The Easy Part, a contemporary single title...
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3M
I’m at 16,689 words for NaNoWriMo. I’m about 5,000 words behind, though I haven’t done any writing today. With some consistency and luck, I might be able to win. At the very least, I’m making good...
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Name Games
To follow up on my previous post, anyone who has ever written fiction can agree that naming characters so that the results are believable and convey everything you want a name to convey is…hard. It’s...
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Breaking Up is Hard to Do
I’m at that point in The Easy Part when I have to break the central couple up and seriously, I hate doing this. Someday I’m going to write a book where the central couple don’t get together until the...
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NaNoWriMo Wrap-Up
So I ended NaNoWriMo with 34,685 words. While I didn’t win, I did do better than last year. And I know that’s a lot more words than I would have written on my own without the NaNoWriMo gimmick. Yes, I...
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A Look Ahead
The other day, I had a conversation with a potential critique partner. She asked, “What kind of books do you want to write?” I’m embarrassed to admit, I was a little stumped. What I eventually said is...
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The Call
It wasn’t a call at all, actually. It was an email. But you know what I mean: the moment you get an offer from a publisher. The moment you start dreaming of long before you finish writing a book and...
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From the Round File: Together is Enough
I’m not going to participate in NaNoWriMo this year. It was a difficult decision but I just finished a book and I’m on the cusp of finishing another non-creative project, plus there’s day job stuff and...
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Odds and Ends
Happy Halloween! I hope your day is spooky in the best way and filled with chocolate. I’ll be at the Virginia Beach Ultimate Show for Women this Saturday (details here!) with this stuff. The...
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