Category: Writing
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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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Two Ways to Help Your Blogging Consistency
Confession Time!When I first started this website, I was horrible at consistent posting. Like, literally horrible. I was very sporadic, to say the least. Looking back, I can see two closely-related reasons for why wasn’t very good at staying on top of my blogging. I hope that sharing these reasons and how to “fix” them…
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What is the Mentor?
A while ago, I watched Night at the Museum. As I watched the movie, I realized that Teddy Roosevelt is a pretty good example of the Mentor arch-type.So, I would like to use Teddy Roosevelt to help show you what the Mentor character is. Mentor means an experienced and trusted adviser. And that is basically…
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What is NaNoWriMo? + Brief Thoughts on NaNoWriMo
In the secret world of writers, a word suddenly starts to float around, causing the new writers and curious, non-writer spies to wonder what this word, “NaNoWriMo”, could possibly mean. Is it a time machine? A plan to take over the world? A new continent or planet? A secret mission? Some sort of dwarven word?…
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My NaNoWriMo WIP
So, I know I told you all that I would tell you what my newest project was a while ago. But then I go busy working on the actual WIP rather than writing a post about it. Sorry… So, onto what my project is! This WIP is for National Novel Writing Month, which occurs every…
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The Opening Line
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” (The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien) “Now, for those of you who know anything about blind children, you are aware that they make the very best thieves.” (Peter Nimble and his Fantastic Eyes, Jonathan Auxier) “There was once a time when only God knew the…
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Reading+Writing= Caution
Reading while writing is important. After all, it is a way for us authors to learn and stay inspired. Reading while writing is also a very dangerous thing to do. Various things from the novels we read float around in our brain and lurk in our subconscious. They can come to the surface while writing.…
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The Importance of Your Writing Environment
It wasn’t until I started writing seriously that I realized how important it is to have a writing environment and for it to be consistent. I have discovered that changes in my writing environment can really affect how well I write. So what do I mean by writing environment? I mean where you write. For…
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