Author: meltaylor
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I’m lucky to live near the Loft!
I haven’t had a chance to visit the Loft Writers’ Collective lately, but I’ve been several times and it’s an awesome place. One of my very favorite workshops I ever […]
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The power of the written word.
Cuz they are. More powerful than the spoken word, in my experience. I am curious why this should be so. For example, when someone says “Oh, god,” out loud, you […]
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Book cover done! (Now to finish the book!)
So here is the finished product! My brother-in-law is quite talented. I shouldn’t have worried. So now I just have to edit the thing again, get back critiques from my […]
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Writing a sex scene.
Ahem. Hm. Blush. So my current novel has only one almost-sex scene in it, a scene that is rudely interrupted by an action sequence. I read somewhere once that in […]
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Throw it to the wolves.
I have finished my second go-through of my book. It is now in the hands of three beta readers. Two of them are tried-and-true, one is a newbie who took […]
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Writer’s block.
Some may have noticed that in a previous post I mentioned having writer’s block for two years. It’s true. It was awful. I tend to get depressed and feel worthless when […]
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Procrastination, or processing?
So I’ve been avoiding my manuscript for weeks now. Not entirely, but more than I should. When I started working on it after re-reading my sequel, I was driven. I […]
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Judging a book by its cover.
I’m a little freaked out by this topic. If I’m going to self-publish, I need to come up with a cover. I recently uncovered a post of seriously bad book […]
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My first critique, and the pain therein.
The very first professional writer who ever looked at my work was a local newspaper reporter named Joe. Joe was a good guy, had been reporting for a while, and […]
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Procrastination . . . I’ll get right on that!
Yes, I will confess, I am using this blog to procrastinate right now. That hasn’t been true of every post so far, but it is true of this one. I […]
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