Tag: fiction writing
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Sugar
I am running a Patreon drive in the month of September! Every Monday in September, I’ll write a short story based on suggestions from my patrons! You can toss some […]
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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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Sharing the adventure.
I heard the advice today on the The Self Publishing Podcast from marketing expert Tim Grahl that writing is an adventure, and when you blog, you should share the adventure. […]
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The relationship.
As a writer, I get handed a lot of books by random people. Some of the books are by authors these people admire, some of them are self-written works, some […]
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Branding.
I met with my small business consultant today, and she and I discussed that illusive and bizarre creature, my brand. She suggested I come up with a handful of key […]
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Off the map.
I write urban fantasy, which means I write stories that generally take place in real cities that actually exist somewhere. I suppose I could make one up every now and […]
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How to help people.
I had a job interview a while ago for office assistant at a chiropractor’s office. I gushed during the interview about how much I enjoyed helping people, how my previous […]
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The balance.
After having gotten into self-publishing, I’ve seen a lot of people talking about getting into it, too, and read about a lot of their techniques and a lot of their […]
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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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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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