Category: Writing
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So here I sit at the desk of my day job wondering how I got into this situation. After looking at my clock three seperate times, I misread it thinking I was late for work. So here I sit- thirty minutes early to my shift… waiting. Why the hell is that so important? Because time…
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This year, instead of focusing on pages and words counts, I will simply be focusing on rewriting all remaining chapters. Put it on hold for a year and it is time to get this ready for an editor (post beta reader full read through). Hope this book cover makes you ask a few questions (if…
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Hello Darkness, my old friend…. ::excitedly rubs her palms together, and pinches the tip of her handlebar mustache:: Okay, I don’t have a mustache, but I HAD to mention the all time top cliche in villains before we started. It is a easy way for your reader to identify who the bad guy is in…
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Okay, we’ve gone through Out Plotting, Worldbuilding, and Character Development, now we can get to the ‘Setting’ portion of this NaNoWriMo Prep Series! What will we cover? Pinterst as a prompt How setting affects characters How setting affects characters choices Pinterest as your Prompt In my previous post about creating Pinterest Mood Boards, I showed…
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Hello. I hope you noticed that it took us a while to get here. That was completely on purpose. As writers, we want to jump headfirst into plotting and character development, without first looking at the universe we are creating. Now that we have asked ourselves some REALLY hard questions about our characters world, we…
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Pinterest. What a lovely juxtaposition of being one of the most useful tools, by being the most dangerous time trap for a writer. I love this tool. I am a visual person, and I need visual cues to springboard my creativity. However, if left unchecked you could spend HOURS pinning, when you SHOULD be writing.…
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For some reason, as writers we fear the dreaded process of plotting, and creating our story structure. This is odd because this is the core of the stories we love. This should be the most blissful part of the pre writing process. Yet, each and every writer toils over this part simply because of the…
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