Category: Writing
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Writing Update! (June-October)
So… I just realized that while I’ve been keeping my newsletter list up to date with a monthly writing recap, I haven’t done a writing update on the blog for a long time. Sorry… But anyways, here’s a quick summary of what happened in my writing life June-October! June: I had the goal of drafting…
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I’m Doing NaNoWriMo + A Tiny Bit about My New Book
I’m doing NaNoWriMo again this year! (If you don’t know what NaNo is, here’s a post I did a couple years ago about it) This will be my fourth NaNoWriMo and my sixth novel. And I’m taking a completely new approach to writing it. In the past, I have always outlined my novel. My outlines…
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Writing Resource: Adorning the Dark
Writing Resources are sort of like book reviews, except that they’re about non-fiction books related to writing! And today’s Writing Resource Highlight is Adorning the Dark by Andrew Peterson. publisher’s synopsis Making something beautiful in a broken world can be harrowing work, and it can’t be done alone. Over the last twenty years, Andrew Peterson has…
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Why I’m Doing NaNoWriMo, Despite the Odds of Failure
First off, if you don’t know what NaNoWriMo is, I wrote a post last year write before NaNo explaining what it is and some of my thoughts about it. You can read that here. So, like I’ve said in that post and in my post about doing Camp NaNoWriMo, I really love NaNoWriMo because of…
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The Dangers of Writing
Writing is a dangerous business. And I don’t mean dangerous in the fact that you have to know all sorts of weird, random facts, like how long a person could be knocked out, or that you might have to ward off crazy fans. I mean that writing is dangerous because it can be physically dangerous.…
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Ideas for When You Burn Out
Every creative art seems to rely on inspiration and the muse. However, the muse doesn’t always strike, and burn out and a lack of inspiration are very real. They can cripple your writing. Thankfully, I haven’t really had to struggle with burn out much. But I have in the past. One time I experienced a…
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Don’t Settle in Your Writing Goals
This past April, I did Camp NaNoWriMo. If you’ve been around here, you’ll know that before April, I was busy-ish with school and hadn’t been really writing. When I decided to do Camp NaNo, I saw it as a way to help me get back into writing. Now, starting to write when you haven’t been…
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Why Writers Should Write Book Summaries
I am horrible at telling people about what I am writing. Like, literally horrible. And it doesn’t matter who is asking me. It can be my family, a friend, or someone at a writer’s conference. What I end up doing I when I am asked is typically mumble something about it being about a boy…
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