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You know, the final pep talk from Chris Baty arriving in my inbox always makes me kind of sad. I mean, I'm already depressed about whatever else is wrong with my life and the anniversary of my dad's death, but the end of Nanowrimo brings me just as...
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I finished my NaNo novel. In the last scene, I've planted the seed for a new one. Maybe it will have to wait until next November, maybe I'll get round to writing it before that.
Tonight, I relax. Tomorrow, I begin the rewrites of last year's...
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We are coming to the end of Nanowrimo, of November, and hopefully of our novels. It's been for many a rough November-part of a rough year-and thus it has been difficult to keep ourselves writing through the hard times.
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50019 words, and I've just written "The End". Another first draft to revise...
I'm glad I've finished the story, but I'm not ecstatic. Maybe I don't have to be over the moon about finishing another story, though. I've done it often enough now to...
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Today is the Tuesday when the Nanowrimo team is trying to raise $100, 000 dollars. So, just some encouragement and please-type stuff.
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I honestly can't believe how much I'm struggling this November in terms of my writing. I think that just going to school is a big part of that.
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Fictional dialogue in first drafts are usually boring. Most of the time. At least in my first drafts. That's why I take Elisabeth Bowen's Seven Rules for Dialogue to heart when I edit.
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I guess this song sums up some of the ways I felt, towards the end of our relationship...
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This is kind of a long scene for an excerpt, but I can't just give you guys part of the scene, because that would not be very cool of me.
Dreaming of Eternia
I was in a black place. The world around me was black. There was no colour, no light,...
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WWW:WAKE
Robert Sawyer 2009
Yes the Robert Sawyer who created Flash Forward!
If you are looking for good SF try the first book of htis new trilogy.
WWW:WAKE is about awareness becoming and change.
Caitline Decter is a 16 year old...
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The journey began, as they all do, with the first stumble. I had travelled within for so long that I needed to shed the skin of certainty and flee the nest. I am the Lovetrucker, therefore I think. Logic is lost, my passport mislaid in some...
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So I'm in a bit of a... state... at the moment. But that's not what I'm here to talk about, those are my own personal problems. Let's just say life sucks, and once again, without fail, the end of November is sucking.
All right.
So in Toronto,...
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The Bride Stripped Bare isn't a difficult read by any means. Told in "lessons" of 2-3 pages each the story moves along at a cracking pace. Opening with a wife and mother having gone missing and the manuscript discovered by our missing authors...
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Ever wanted to read the first draft of a published writer's new story? Curious how someone who earns her money as a full-time fiction writer?
If the answer is yes, then head over to TalysMana, the new project of fabulous Holly Lisle. She is...
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This is the second last weekend of November, and we're all scrambling to hit our desired word counts now. Hopefully in the next two days you'll be able to put aside some extra time to write, time to write three or four or five thousand words so that...
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Tonight I gave myself the night off. On the first glance, not the best tactic considering I have written about 3,000 words this week.
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So I'm at 185K, not moving as quickly as I would like but I'm confident that I can still hit 350K, and I'm realizing that I might need to change some things.
Jihad has grown from one book into seven into what is probably ten, with the addition of...
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So I'm at 180K, rolling along nicely, back in the game. I'm 100% sure at this point that I'll be able to hit 350K.
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I've written a couple of hundred words so far, and I will try for a few more in a moment (just have to make the most of it while my internet connection is working).
During the day, whenever I had a spare minute, I pictured the next scene I need...
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So I'm back into the flow of things, my mind is working after a brief OD on sleep, and I'm back to writing.
Now that Phoenix Falling is finished I'm working on something Entirely Different. It was supposed to be a book called Astarael, which was...
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