Author: meltaylor
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More creepy questions.
Sometimes being a writer is bizarre. A friend of mine went to school for language arts, but while she was in college, she worked with campus security as a dispatcher. […]
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Hard lessons in writing #4: When you learn to write, reading gets less pleasant.
I’ve read other authors talking about this, and I have to agree it’s true. When you don’t know the rules of grammar and tight editing, there’s a lot of garbage […]
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Of Unicorns and Vampires
When the sun started sinking over the horizon, I found myself looking toward my phone. I had called and left a message on Kent’s machine that afternoon. He had this […]
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Rain and Coffee
The barista behind the counter smiled at me, a warm, plenty-of-eye-contact kind of smile. I couldn’t tell if he was being friendly or flirty, but it didn’t matter. Either way, […]
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Hard lessons in writing #3: You ARE a special butterfly.
Funny thing is, this was maybe even harder to learn than you are NOT a special butterfly. Once I had accepted the fact that I would have to do all […]
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Hard lessons in writing #2: You are not a special butterfly.
This was a pretty bitter pill for me to swallow. There was no real “aha!” moment around this, it was more like a process of evolution — that and listening […]
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Taking stock of the journey thus far.
So it’s been a little while since I just talked about where I am in the novel-writing process right now, so I thought I’d check in. Thing are going okay, […]
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Hard lessons in writing #1: You’re doing it wrong.
As previously mentioned, I’ve read many books on craft, attended many workshops, and peer-critiqued with many peers. That’s not how I started. I didn’t know any of those things existed […]
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Editing by levels.
In learning how to write, I have studied many books on craft and grammar and attended many workshops. I honestly can’t recall where I got this advice from, but it […]
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He/she.
When I was a kid, I had these health books about where babies come from. Okay, fine. On the very first page, before any of the explanations about sex and […]
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