Tag: writing life
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Ghosts.
I do believe in them. I understand if you don’t, I don’t think less of you for it. When my sister and I were kids, we lived in a nice […]
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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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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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Damn, I’m good.
So I’m working on a companion story for my faerie book. It’s the back story of the love interest, who’s half-faerie and half-human. He was raised in Faerie by his […]
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The end.
I just found out that my next-door neighbor is dying. She has cancer. It hasn’t responded to any of the chemo or radiation the oncologists have tried. But the last […]
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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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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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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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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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