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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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Deliberate flubbing.
When you’re writing fiction, you have to make the same grammatical mistakes that your characters would make. As in, the same mistakes that human beings make when they’re talking. When […]
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The faults in others.
I have this friend. He’s one of the guitarists in my band. He’s AMAZING. He writes this original stuff that is funky and dance-y and catchy and deep and thought […]
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Goals.
One of my friends at work keeps telling me I won’t be working at that job next year. She means that she thinks I will be successful with my books, […]
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“I decided to be a writer.”
I like listening to my local public radio station, but sometimes the guests make me want to scream. In the last few weeks, two different shows interviewed the guy who […]
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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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