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Day 2 – Personal Challenge
(Sort of random – just trying to work out the (way) back story of a couple of characters from my urban fantasy. I always us brackets when I have an idea that doesn’t really fit yet.) “I’ll never get...
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Day 3 – Personal Challenge
(Character study – these old ladies have been haunting me for a while.) Maude sighed as the car pulled into the parking lot. “I just hate this place.” Ella looked at the green lawns and towering oak...
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Day 4 – Personal Challenge
(What I worked on last night is not thematically good for general consumption… so I can’t post it here. Instead, I grabbed the first part of a draft for a Chapter One of an obligatory “guy rediscovers...
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My Mother’s Party Skirt
Coming from a relatively poor, tea-totaling family, our celebrations never looked like the ones on television. That’s ok though, since we didn’t own a television, or a “one-eyed devil” as it was...
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NANOWRIMO prep and a great find
NANOWRIMO is sneaking up on us. Refusing to be caught off guard again, I am letting the wheels spin already. The writing group I started here in Boston is going strong and I adore all of the regulars...
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Reading Woes
I’ve been writing a lot lately. Just the fact that I can honestly type that sentence makes me just about the happiest idiot on this planet – but that’s not what this post is about. Anyway, even when...
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Writing Group Faux Pas
A few months ago I got a little annoyed during our weekly writing group. One of the authors was working on a fantasy novel that contained witchcraft. One of the people in our group said that the...
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When it’s necessary to murder a scene
I have been on such a roll lately, writing like a maniac for the first time in my life. Running up to the 4 ½ day weekend that was Christmas this year, I was excited about all of the writing I was...
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Don’t sell the waitress short
Anyone who’s taken a class with me knows exactly how much I despise character sheets. They’re evil and a waste of my precious, precious time. By the time I sit down and write with a character, he or...
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I Don’t Care How You Get Here – Writing advice from Oleta Adams
I follow a lot of podcasts, but there are only a few that I feel compelled to listen to the absolute second they are downloaded. Two on that list are the Self Publishing Podcast and Better Off Undead....
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