Tag: writing process
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Cleaning
We like new things, us writers. New pens. New notebooks. New books. Even new WIPs (work in progress). If anything, we love new WIPs most of all. Well… some of us do, anyway. Think of a new story idea like that of a new romance. It’s invigorating. Enticing. Exciting. We stare dreamily into the distance, […]
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A Hard Lesson
This is happening too often. In front of me, a story sits, 70K words in, and I am spiraling out of control. It is to be a lengthy story, an epic, in the fantasy genre, with my estimates being somewhere in the neighborhood of 200K+ when finished. And for the most part, I know the […]
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Introducing 2023
We’re a day into the New Year, as of this post at least. As I write this, it is in the waning few days of 2022, sitting in my den with a sleeping dog next to me. As said previously in my spur-of-the-moment last post of 2022, I decided to think hard on the things […]
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Why I am Failing as a Writer: Part 10 – The Blame Game
I am unsure if this is going to be the last post or if there will be more. When I started writing these posts, taking a harder look at my own thoughts and habits encircling my writing — both career-wise and the act of writing itself, there were only 6 or 7 of these posts […]
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And After a Brief Hiatus…
Last week, my family and I took a trip down to Florida so that we could visit Disney World and Universal Studios. It was the second time this year we did so (something we are exceptionally fortunate to be able to do while also having a lot of gratitude for the sacrifices that enabled it). […]