Tag: independent writing
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The Mental Prep
If you’ve been reading this blog now, you’ll know two things: I have an writer’s event that I am going to that happens to be today (10/14/17) around when this blog posts. I have a good deal of social anxiety. Well, I am at the writer’s event. Being that I am writing this post actually…
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Working Through the Outline
I decided to do something a little different for book 2 of The Dangerous Life of Agnes Pyle. Working off my prior admission that outlining was a weakness of mine, I chose to work on making an outline for the entire book before I start writing it. I figured that I could do this while…
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This Careless Writer

The difference between being a careless writer and one who is working towards growing as a writer is precisely the latter. Until recently, I was pretty sure that I was growing. Maybe I was, but I feel now that I was more the former, rushing to get work out into the world before it was…
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Cluttered Mind
It took me two weeks to start writing a poem. There it was, sitting in my brain taking up valuable space. I wasn’t writing it down. Even having notebooks and cell phones available when there wasn’t a computer even, I, for some reason, chose to hold onto it. Kept it hovering in my thoughts as…