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The Final Stretch!

Posted on October 21, 2012 by

We’re so close to getting Help Wanted done and published! I worked on editing all weekend, those final little tweaks. I’m taking a day off from it tomorrow and then I’ll throw it on my kindle and see how it … Continue reading →

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Outlining

Posted on October 3, 2012 by

I’ve addressed outlining in a couple of previous posts ( The Larval Stage of an Outline and The Bare Bones Outline ) but both of those were specific to individual works and hardly comprehensive. I don’t know if I’m going … Continue reading →

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The Inner Editor

Posted on September 29, 2012 by

Your inner editor is that voice in your head that tells you when you’ve made a typo, or written an awkward sentence, etc. A strong inner editor is not a bad thing, most of the time. When you’ve written your … Continue reading →

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Raising an Idea from Infancy

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

Turning an idea into a book is quite a process. I’ve had plenty of ideas that can’t make the cut. Some are ill-formed, others merely incomplete. I don’t actually make any claims that I’m a font of good ideas. Three … Continue reading →

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The Birth of an Idea: The Sunshine Line

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

One day in the summer of ’09 I had a dream. When I woke, all I could remember was a scene. Someone is in a perfectly normal kitchen and fairies start spilling out from the cupboards and such. The image … Continue reading →

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