Tag: creative writing
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Writing blog roundup
Some entries from blogs on writing that I’ve read lately: Does it matter where a writer lives: a big city or the countryside; a two-story house or a basement; a culturally diverse or monotonous neighborhood? Read more. Why Keeping a Journal is so Important for Writers and all Creative Types. Read more. The Art of Character:…
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The girlfriend of my protagonist is boring. Hate her.
No, I don’t really hate her. She has the potential to be an interesting character for my novel–for now I’m calling it The Deity Run–but it’s my fault she’s boring with an uppercase B. In the first draft I wrote during National Novel Writing Month, I created a girlfriend for my protagonist, Ferdinand Clark. Her…
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I survived bootcamp
I feel like I’ve grown the most as a fiction writer due to some spontaneous decisions I’ve made. One of these was doing National Novel Writing Month on the first day it started. I made a split decision on November 1st to write a 50,000 first draft of a novel by November 30th. And I…