Tag: Writing life
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March Recap
I’m just going to take a wild guess here and say that March took a turn that none of us really saw coming. The world decided to turn upside down a little bit. Dystopian authors should be taking notes about how people react to pandemics. Especially about the lack of toilet paper. Now, I don’t…
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Keeping a Writing Mindset When You Can’t Actually Write
If you’ve been around here lately, you probably already know that due to the current business of my life, I’ve haven’t been writing lately. Words have not been going down on paper. However, I’ve been doing my best to keep myself in the writing mindset. I don’t want to return to writing and then suddenly…
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February Recap
Goodness! February went fast! Then again, it is a shorter month. But still! Reading Recap I read sixteen books in February. Several of them were about the RMS Titanic, since I am writing a paper on the Titanic for school. All of the research I am doing may or may not lead to me writing…
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January Recap
And just like that January is gone and February is here! 2020 is off to a fast start! Reading Recap: I read twenty books during January. However, several of them were pictures books, which only sort of count. I read eleven books that I hadn’t ever read before. Right now, I am only counting books…
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The Three Types of Plotters
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who write books and those who don’t. And of those who write books, there are three types of people: the pantsers, the plotters, and the plantsers. Now, you are probably scratching your head, and wondering what all of that means. Pantser, plotter, and plantser all…
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Learning to Dream Realistically
Writers are dreamers. We are people with our heads in the clouds, to some extent. After all, we have to be able to imagine up worlds unseen and people unknown. But writers are also normal people like everyone else. Which means that we have to be realistic to an extent. And recently, I’ve realized I…
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2019 Recap
Happy New Year everyone! It is hard to believe that 2019 is gone and that 2020 is here! 2019 was a pretty big year for me when it comes to my writing. In 2019 I: Started Façade in February Started to create this website in March Wrote 100,000 words of Façade by the end of…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving, friends! I hope that you are having a wonderful Thanksgiving. As it is Thanksgiving, I would like to take a minute to look back and list some of the writing related things that I am thankful for this year. I am thankful for the ability to write. I am thankful for my wild…
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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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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.…
Hailey Huntington 