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Friday’s Findings: Every Sentence
“Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.” -Kurt Vonnegut Friday’s Findings My Linktree
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Friday’s Findings: The Beginning
“Let the writing have its beginning — at the end.” -Edgar Allan Poe Friday’s Findings Photo by Balazs Kiss: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-forest-4279380/ My Linktree
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Scare Me Up: Horror Books for This Halloween Season
Last night I did this goofy thing in the spirit of Halloween. I turned off all the lights and listened to an audio version of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher. It’s less than an hour long and super creepy. I recommend you do the same thing with a short and…
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Friday’s Findings: Stupid stuff that scared me when I was a stupid kid
When I was a little kid, like four or five years old, I would torture myself this way: while everyone else was watching tv in the warm, cozy, well-lit living room, I would sneak off to the dark, cold, empty kitchen. I would stand in front of the door that led down into the basement.…
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Focus on word count
“I try to focus on word count per day. So when I do first drafts, I aim to write a set word count every Monday – Friday until the book is done. That means that I can usually predict the day the book will be done when I start it.” — Taylor Jenkins Reidauthor of…
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Friday’s Findings: Five things I’ve learned in five years
In my post last Friday, I talked about writers should keep learning their craft. I thought about writing practices I had learned in the last five years. I took an inventory and came up with two lists: Today, I want to show you my writing craft tips. These are writing practices I’ve discovered in the…
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Simple Advice for Writing
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” -Ernest Hemingway Photo by cottonbro studio: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-writing-on-a-white-paper-7610770/ My Linktree
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Friday’s Findings: Never stop learning
Never stop learning your craft. I’m a little surprised that some people I know who like to write aren’t interested in further training. I guess I understand. but I like taking online classes about writing fiction. I have to be careful, because I don’t want learning to replace actual writing. Writers can spend a little…
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Painting and words
“Paint. That’s the magic word. Paint pictures with words. That’s the greatest advice I can give anybody. Paint the pictures with words. The picture will appear in the imagination so the person reading it can say, ‘I can see that’.” -Brian Jacques Photo by Miguel Á. Padriñán: https://www.pexels.com/photo/several-paintbrushes-114123/ My Link tree
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