Tag: writing process
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My NaNoWriMo

Ah, November has come once again to the writing community. That means that scores of writers will be trying their hand at the challenge of NaNoWriMo. For those of you not hip to it, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. And therein it is the challenge for each writer participating to attempt to write…
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Good Habits Die Easy
Resurrecting good habits has been on my mind lately. Specifically I speak of some old writing habits that I had in the past. Even the recent past. Two come to mind as habits that I should look into bringing back: writing 100 words every time I log onto a computer and writing 500 words before…
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Nothing to see here…
Well earlier I posted “The Coffee” as my weekly short story rather than “An Award-Winning Display.” (Note: the short stories are likely going to go bi-weekly or monthly some time in the near future.) It was a valiant effort I made, but alas I was not able to do much to get that story finished…
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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…