Category: my life
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Friday’s Findings: Keep It Simple
The best principle to keep in mind when it comes to making writing goals for the new year is this: keep it simple. I’ve broken my writing goals down in three ways: There. It’s that simple. I’ll come back here at the end of 2024 to see how I’m doing. Here are some links about…
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Some Advice for Writing a Series
As a member of The Writing Mastery Academy, I get to listen to a couple of webinars each month. These webinars feature guest authors, editors and others in the publishing field. This past weekend, I tuned into webinar with science fiction and fantasy author Scott Reintgen as guest. He spent an hour answering questions members…
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Friday’s Findings: What I Read This Year
This has been a record breaking year for my reading. So far, I’ve read 62 books and will probably finish a couple more before the end of the year. In case you’re curious, you can peruse my list of the books I read (in the order I read them). Sorry I don’t have more critique…
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Friday’s Findings: An Experiment in Screenplay Writing
Warning: possible spoilers for the novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay follow. Let me start off by saying I do not intend to become a screenplay writer. What I did yesterday was for fun. It started when I began re-reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. I had forgotten…
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NaNoWriMo 23: The Verdict
I’ll go ahead and say it: I didn’t win NaNoWriMo 23. Am I sad about it? Nope. During my first NaNoWriMo in 2008, I wanted to win so badly I could taste it. And I did win. I gained a lot of confidence in myself as a writer that year. And, to be honest, if…
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New Things I Did Over Thanksgiving Week
For Thanksgiving, family got together in Arizona last week. As a result, I did these things for the first time ever: take an Uber; stay in an Airbnb; taste In-N-Out Burger; All good. I know, I’m sheltered. Photo by Pixabay: https://www.pexels.com/photo/adventure-arid-arizona-barren-414136/
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Friday’s Findings: Writing Instruction Booklist
I revisited my list of writing instruction books I’d like to read at some point in my life. These are books on writing I’ve never read before. I may not get to all of them, but I’d like to try. If you’ve read any of these, let me know what you think of them. Photo…
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Writing Instruction Books I Want to Read Again
In my last post, I pulled out a quote from a book called The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman. It made me realize I haven’t read that book in many years. It also made me realize I wanted to read it again. Then I decided to make a list of books on writing instruction…
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A Hard Question
This is from Noah Lukeman’s book The First Five Pages. I read that a long time ago. It’s one of those books I want to read again. I feel I’ve grown as a writer and I’m curious if the book would mean more to me now. Photo by Leeloo Thefirst: https://www.pexels.com/photo/question-mark-on-crumpled-paper-5428826/ My Linktree
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