Tag: writing
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News on the Universe of The Sunshine Line
The Sunshine Line was published in late August and has gotten stunning reviews on Amazon to my great pleasure. Last month I rolled The Sunshine Line out on Smashwords, thus giving my readers more choices and more control over their purchase. Many readers have eagerly asked for more. You ask, I deliver. Let me give you a…
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Attack of the Plot Bunnies!
Plot bunnies are story ideas, to put it succinctly. I have a folder within my writing folder to pen up my plot bunnies. I’ll write a few words, a premise, a location, sometimes only a bit of dialogue that I really want to use in a story. Usually I put just enough information in the…
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Outlining
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 to achieve “comprehensive” in this post, but I’m at least going to open up the…
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The Inner Editor
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 first draft you can let that strong inner editor loose on your work and hopefully…
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National Novel Writing Month (aka: NaNoWriMo)
Okay, I know it’s still September and NaNoWriMo doesn’t start until November, but I thought to myself, Why wait to tell people what it is? Before I get into the history and utility of NaNoWriMo, let me say this: It is not a contest, it’s a challenge. Nobody gets a prize and you’re not competing with…
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Plotting in My Sleep
Or at least near my sleep. When I’m in the planning phase, the outlining phase, of a new book I’ve found a pretty darn reliable way to work on ideas. I snuggle in to go to sleep and then start musing. Since I’m close to sleep, my mind wanders. Sometimes it wanders in a useful way…
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It’s almost time for The Sunshine Line!!
After some delays on the cover art, The Sunshine Line is almost ready to go! Some time in the next few days I will be posting (to Google+ and facebook) the excerpts previously published on this blog, counting down to publication! The Sunshine Line will initially be offered exclusively through Amazon, where I can do promotional days…
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The Larval Stage of an Outline
Every story has to start somewhere. Truthfully, this isn’t especially vague for me for an intial outline. Got to get the ideas I have down, and go from there. Still, this is pretty funny stuff. I hope you enjoy! Oh, and I’m not going to try to adjust the formatting, it just isn’t worth it. I…
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Spoilers and Sequels and Prequels, Oh My!
If I ever get my cover, I’ll be able to publish The Sunshine Line… So far, I’ve written two sequels and a short story that takes place between the first and second books. And now I’m starting to put together a prequel short story. I was careful in writing the short story mentioned above to…
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Becalmed
I’m still feeling a little bit at sea (thus the title) about what, exactly, I should be working on right now. I think I overloaded myself working on so many different projects more or less simultaneously. I can’t let this go on too long.