Writing
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Men don’t like . . .
You know what pisses me off? Okay, a lot of things, but today I’m going to get mad about generalizations. It shows up a lot as dating advice, but it […]
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Making people up.
Character creation is one of my favorite things about writing fiction. It’s a two-part process, really. First comes the inspiration, then comes the development. Inspiration is easy enough. I need […]
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Diversity in my fiction.
I’m really not as good at this as I could be. Part of that is my own blindness, and part of that is the community I currently live in — […]
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The course of plot.
I read a very interesting blog post the other day that a favorite author of mine shared on her Facebook page. It was entitled, “I don’t want to play the […]
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Author level up!
I’m trying to, anyway. I keep hearing how the important thing in this authoring game is to just keep working on getting better and better, at whatever pace you can, […]
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Finish it!
I’ve noticed that beginning writers tend to have this one thing they all do. Okay, there’re several things they all seem to do, but I’m just going to get weird […]
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I’m just me.
Just in case you were looking for some sort of professional author with a slick look and fashionable turn out who’s eloquent and interesting, I hate to tell you. It’s […]
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Why the hell am I crying?
I burst into tears the other day at a friend’s funeral. This might not seem so odd. And indeed, I had been teary-eyed off and on through the service and […]
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Stealing shit.
(This post wound up getting pretty long, I guess I have more to say about world-building than I thought! Buckle up!) In a previous post, I mentioned that I totally […]
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Finding courage.
I don’t know where it came from. I really don’t. If you’ve read previous posts, you know that sales and marketing has been terrifying me from the first time I […]
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