Unearthing the Fossil: Giving Pantsing a Try
A few weeks ago, I read Stephen King’s On Writing. Overall, it was a great and informing read. Definitely a book I will be reading time and again. I highly recommend it. However, I must admit that at...
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How to Take the Plunge and Be a Writer (Part 1)
Thanks, http://www.sxc.hu/profile/nkzs I think we’ve all heard it before. “I’ve wanted to be a writer as long as I can remember.” But how many people actually follow up on that dream? How many people...
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How to Take the Plunge and Be a Writer (Part 2)
You made a commitment to be a writer last week in How to Take the Plunge and Be a Writer (Part 1). That’s great. The question now is: What do you need to do specifically to reach your dream of being a...
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What Is Writing Really Costing You?
Being a writer eats up a lot of time. There’s growing your platform, marketing your books, reading about writing, and interacting with other writers online and off. Not to mention the actual writing...
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How to Trap the Ideas You Don’t Realize You Have
Are you the kind of writer that struggles for every measly idea? Do you wonder what you’re doing wrong when other writers share that they can hardly keep up with the multitude of ideas that strike them...
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15 Ways To Get Unblocked And Start Writing Again
Photo Credit: WANA Commons Ideas are everywhere. You just have to be aware of them. But I think ideas strike the most when you’re not writing. How many times have you sat down in your writing chair at...
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How To Write At Least 2,000 Words a Week With Minimal Effort
From WANA Commons: LMRitchie Do you struggle to find the time to write? Do you wish you could make substantial progress on your WIP but find the weeks flashing by without writing a single word? You’re...
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8 Twitter Hashtags to Get And Keep You Writing
Photo Credit: Svilen001 Writing can get lonely. Sometimes, you need a pat on the back to help you feel better about the tiny amount of progress you’ve made in the last two hours. Other times, you need...
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One Very Cool Way to Meet Your Writing Goals (Plus a Temporary Change)
Let’s cut to the chase. I will no longer be blogging on Wednesdays. I’m having to cut back to posting once a week, and I chose Friday Features. I hope you agree that Friday Features offers the most...
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2012 in Review + 2013 Writing Goals
2013 is here! Boy, how time flies. It’s time to create goals for the new year, and more importantly, review how we did last year. Photo Credit: Mattox My 2012 Writing Goals (And How I Did) Write and...
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So I’ve been listening to the Self-Publishing Podcast, which I highly recommend (although it has tons if profanity so you’ve been warned; it’s hilarious, though), and episode 24 talks about the...
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NaNoWriMo 2014, Week 1: Blasting Through Doubts, 3K in Less Than 2 Hours, and...
So I recently shared that I’d be participating in NaNoWriMo this year and that I’d actually be writing the third book in the Unbreakable Love series, Unfailing Love. Jimmy and Mayra’s story. I can’t be...
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Camp NaNoWriMo 2015: Day 13
10:02pm An awesome day! Today I went back to the day job after being off for a week. I was not a happy camper this morning having to get up at 6:30am. Talk about UGH. I was in a tired kinda blah mood...
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10:57pm Today, I was able to meet my 2100 daily goal again. So I’m not complaining there! However, it wasn’t as easy or quick as yesterday. I wrote from 04:18pm to 6:00pm after much deliberation and...
View ArticleCamp NaNoWriMo 2015: Day 15
10:00pm Just now published the Day 14 post. Went to bed so late last night that I guess I forgot to actually hit publish. So if you’re reading this in email, you’ll probably get both entries in the...
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Camp NaNoWriMo 2015: Day 16
11:28pm Not a very productive day today. For a couple of reasons. I wrote exactly nine words in about 9 minutes. And I was just so tired that I couldn’t write any more than that. Not enough sleep. Some...
View ArticleCamp NaNoWriMo 2015: Day 17
11:23pm Another long day today. Stayed really late at work then had lunch at Chickfila with the toddler and finished up more day job stuff while she played on the playground. Finally wrapped everything...
View ArticleCamp NaNoWriMo 2015: Day 18
Woke up at 9ish this morning, determined to get my words done early. Took a shower, sat at the dining table, and also got breakfast ready (and ate) as I wrote for an hour and twenty minutes. Then...
View ArticleCamp NaNoWriMo 2015: Day 19
11:19pm So no words today. Got a lot of marketing related stuff done but no words. So that sucks. But I took a list at my marketing tasks for April and just was like… I really needed to work on...
View ArticleCamp NaNoWriMo 2015: Day 20
11:35pm In bed right now. Really tired. But not a bad day. I’ve been on and off the past several days. Writing some days and not others with all the website stuff going on. But got back on track today....
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