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Dark stories scare me.
Which is really bizarre, since that’s the kind of thing I write. I had to swear off Stephen King after just 3 books, I had to proclaim to my husband […]
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The belly dance/writing crossover.
I talked about artists’ brains in a previous post, and how it seems like we can’t stick to just one medium. I didn’t get too many comments here, but when […]
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Hard lessons in writing: Once you finish, do it again.
I mean, of course, that deja-vu insanity, editing. As a novelist, you’ve got to not only write the whole book, but then you have to sit down and read it […]
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Hard lessons in writing: English is bizarre.
The very first thing I started working on as a baby writer was grammar. That and spelling. As a thirteen-year-old with a typewriter, I thought that the most important thing […]
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Marketability.
I was at a craft fair peddling my books yesterday, and the woman at the booth beside me told me she and her girlfriend are writing a children’s book. She […]
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Artist’s brains.
Stop me if I’m wrong here, but I noticed something funny about artists a while back, and many of my artist friends have agreed. I’ve never met an artist who […]
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Self-published crap.
I’ve picked up a handful of self-published books over the years, not many, and I have to say, I have noticed a distinct lack of polish in the writing in […]
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Self-taught.
This will be a bit of a rant, and I’ll apologize in advance, and I’ll try to keep it at least a little interesting. I am almost entirely self-taught. In […]
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Quality over quantity.
One of the most-repeated pieces of advice I keep hearing from other self-publishers is to write fast. Put out a lot of content in a short amount of time. Get […]
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I make faces while writing.
I once got a piece of advice from a writing coach: “You have to write it like it was when you were there.” I love this. It embodies for me […]
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