Category: procrastination
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Friday’s Findings
Some articles on fiction writing: How to Stop Procrastinating and Keep Writing 5 Essential Hero’s Journey Themes and Symbolic Archetypes That Will Thrill Your Readers Write On: 27 of the Best Books on Writing Pace Your Prose — Three Thoughts on Timing World Building in Epic Fantasy
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Some Tips on Increasing Blog Production
Usually, I blog about fiction writing tips, but now I’m going to switch it up. I’ve started some practices that have helped me increase the numbers of blog entries I write as well as me be more motivated in my blog writing. These tips are not directly geared toward increasing the number of followers who’ll…
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NaNoWriMo on the Horizon …
A warning: I’m going to vent a little in the first half of this blog posting, but I’m offering up some NaNoWriMo advice in the second half. First, I want to mention something I’ve noticed about haters of NaNoWriMo. They just don’t get it. NaNoWriMo haters assume it’s about getting published. “Most NaNoWriMo participants never…
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Friday’s Findings 03.30.18
Here are some articles on writing I’ve read lately: How Do You Find Time To Write? Essential Writing Advice from Virginia Woolf Frame Your Scene with Essay Structure How to Increase Your Income as a Fiction Writer in 2018 Visual Thinking View my Consortium SF Series at Amazon.
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The Furious Five Hundred
It’s a busy week for me for several reasons, one of which my house is being remodeled and every room is in disarray. I have no place to sit in my own home. Despite that, I’ve been camping out at the coffee shop for the past few days and I’m getting work done. I’m using…
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Jump Start
Nothing like a deadline to jump start my motivation. View my Consortium SF Series at Amazon.
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What are the most important scenes in a novel?
To overcome feeling overwhelmed by finishing your novel, a writer might want to keep these writing principles in mind: She doesn’t have to write chronologically. She can write her most important scenes first and then fill in the blanks. Now, if she has planned your novel with some kind of outline, then these principles become even easier.…
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The Final Quarter
I am down to the last 25% of the current draft of my novel which I’m now calling Ziggurat Reach. Whether that is a working title or a final title, I don’t know. I know what is happening in the last part of my novel. I am building up to the story’s climax and all…
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Books on writing I read in 2015
Every year I try and read a couple of books on the writing craft. I know that’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but, honestly, I love reading stuff on how to write fiction. Here is what I read in 2015: Planning a Novel, Script or Memoir by Hank Quense Quense offers practical tips on how…
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