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Thirty Days

“Thirty days and nights of literary abandon! No plot? No problem!” NaNoWriMo A heads up for anyone who’s been noodling around a novel project: National Novel Writing Month (also known as NaNoWriMo) is fast approaching. November isn’t all voting, turkey, … Continue reading

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Amazing Feeling

I’ve just finished reading a novel. There are other things I could have been doing, but I was almost at the end of the story and it compelled me to pick it up again. I want to talk about the … Continue reading

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Thirty Days

“Thirty days and nights of literary abandon! No plot? No problem!” NaNoWriMo As we head into November, I thought I’d give anyone who has been noodling around a novel project a heads up: National Novel Writing Month (also known as … Continue reading

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Wrapping Up

There’s a lot of truth to the idea that writing a novel is a marathon, not a sprint. As I finally begin wrapping up a major revision of my children’s novel, I’m seeing the light at the end of the … Continue reading

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Pushing Forward

“As a novelist, I find that there are days when the words flow easily, and others when even writing the first sentence feels about as easy as climbing Mount Everest in flip-flops.” Cara Lockwood So often, we start big-scale writing … Continue reading

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