Author: meltaylor
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And on a more technical note . . .
Working on this e-book thing. I downloaded a book by Zoe Winters called “Smart Self-publishing” and read it all the way through in a few days while taking copious notes. I […]
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Writer’s groups, the ultimate betrayal.
Okay, that’s maybe a little melodramatic. Still, I haven’t had good experiences. Way back when I was still a toddler writer, I put up a sign at the coffee shop […]
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I wrote THAT?!?
Here’s my brain editing. So, Ian has been the target of an unknown killer. Sebastian is a bad-ass assassin on a mission to re-think his life who’s offered to help […]
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So, how’s that book going?
Oh, I think pretty well. I’m on page 61. I don’t know if that’s sad or great for re-editing something you haven’t looked at in five years or so. I’m […]
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Fear factor.
I’ll admit it. I’m scared. It’s a fear loop, really. So that sucks. I am afraid that I will not make money trying to sell my book. I never went […]
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Hey! There’s a story for you!
I hate when people say that. They always say it about something I have positively no interest in writing about, or about something that has no plot, or something that’s […]
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Editing, the neverending job.
It’s sort of true. There does come a point where you have to stop editing because you can’t put the damn thing out if you’re going to work on it […]
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Word nerdiness.
I am the biggest word nerd. Maybe not in the whole world, but in a general sense. This has its pros and cons. I like to read the dictionary. I […]
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Oh! Horrible writing I’ve committed, let me count the ways.
First was the novella that got abandoned about horses based on the YA novel Ratha’s Creature. And I do mean based on. Like, an exact duplicate, but with talking horses […]
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Childrens’ books almost made me stop reading.
It’s true. Them and the public school system. When I was in first grade (age 6), the teacher announced we were going to learn to read that year in school. […]
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