See what happens when you do a good plot twist? Made my day. Looks like The Water Castle will ROCK! (Stay tuned, it’s almost finished.)
A critique partner and friend recently noted that I’m looking even more prolific the past few days, putting out a few chapters of my story for inquiring eyes at the critique website. Kinda sorta. Now, you know I am a BIG advocate of WRITE EVERY DAY, but I recognized something that you need to know […]
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NaNoWriMo: Biting the Bullet
Originally posted on Piss, Coffee, and Vinegar:
NaNoWriMo: Biting the Bullet Writers tend to fall into two camps, this time of year: pro-NaNo, anti-NaNo. Everybody writes blogs about it (including me, apparently, hmm.). People who are doing NaNo write posts about how exhausted they are already, and how rude it is to not like something…
When I was a brand new writer, I didn’t worry too much about how to write a story or what the process was. I just was relating funny stories about first-time parents with a new baby in the house. A lot of sleep deprived people could relate to that, so it transitioned pretty easily into […]
I know people who use Virtual Assistants and swear by them, and I know a lot of authors who are swamped with trying to run a blog and Twitter and Instagram and Pinterest and Snapchat, etc., and still find time to write – but don’t think they can delegate any of these tasks, and don’t […]
Occasionally on the blog we find a new talent we want to brag about. There are lots of writers who put words on paper because they have to, not because they want to. It became a job and stopped being fun and it shows in their work. BB Free has a passion and energy that […]
If there’s one thing I’ve learned since I started publishing, it’s that I have a lot to learn. Publishing, like writing, is something you only ever see the final product of. You see other people publish and think, “Oh, I could totally do that.” And while yeah, you can, it’s so much more complicated than […]
Occasionally I get a question from a fellow author with a problem and I answer it here. Dear Dan, My novel is still in its first draft. It´s long, I still have to finish it, and I write a LOT every day, but there´s still a lot of time before it will be published. Many […]
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In response to the NaNo Haters.
Originally posted on Eclectic Alli:
National Novel Writing Month is well under way, and this year I’ve been interacting on social media with it a lot more than previous. Particularly on Twitter. I’ve already shared how much I am helped by @NaNoWordSprints, and I love the community that I find there — lots of random…
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Who Should I Read?
We all have our favorite authors (and some of you have read and enjoyed my stuff), but the question is… If we, as authors, are supposed to “read a lot and write a lot” – not necessarily in that order – to improve our craft, then it stands to reason we should be, well… Reading. […]
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