October Creative Contemplations I took the first week of October off work, with no plans. I had a cold the week before so part of the week of leave was resting from being sick, and the other part was whatever I wanted to do on a whim. But also, having had a cold, my […]
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NaNoWriMo Prep 2021 Part 4
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NaNoWriMo Prep 2021 Part 4 (Read part 1, part 2, and part 3.) One thought that came to me in the bath (because that’s where all ideas spawn?). Remember that NaNoWriMo is not your final book. It is about getting a draft done. This means that you can break rules. Actually, I’ve found […]
Not Every Story Is A Book
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Not Every Story Is A Book I gave some advice in a writers Facebook group that I thought could be shared more broadly. Someone was struggling with their story. Don’t we all from time to time? My comment was: Do you have a book in you or do you have a story in […]
About Writing Goals
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A friend shared the following as an image on Facebook. I tried to find the original source, but it appears the tumbler account doesn’t exist anymore, but this post was reblogged and screenshotted. The post reads: I saw a post talking about how Terry Pratchett only wrote 400 words a day, how that […]
September Creative Contemplations
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September Creative Contemplations I listened to an online business summit this month and I … didn’t hate it? So weird. Usually I nod off as they’re full “omg sales funnel” and “you 10 step never fail formula” and … well I fall asleep about then. But at this one the presenters had clearly been encouraged […]
NaNoWriMo Prep 2021 Part 3
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NaNoWriMo Prep 2021 Part 3 Welcome to part three of “oh shit I need to prepare if I’m going to get through NaNoWriMo this year”. You can also read part 1 and part 2. Here I reached one question I could easily answer: Image description: a screenshot of a digital workbook that says: […]
Randoms 25
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Bad Language It’s weird how we say “excuse the language” for a word like fuck but have no problem with people using non swear word language to undermine and gaslight people. That’s worse language. Unfollowing Recently, I unsubscribed/unfollowed some one/thing that I had received for years. It was one of those things that was […]
NaNoWriMo Prep 2021 Part 2
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NaNoWriMo Prep 2021 Part 2 You can find part 1 (which didn’t know it was going to be a part 1) here. Take a look at the image below. It’s an early part of the prep workbook that you can get from the NaNoWriMo site. Image description. A screenshot of a digital workbook […]
NaNoWriMo 2021 Prep
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I’ve been thinking about what I want to do for NaNoWriMo 2021. I blame NaNoWriMo sending an email to their prep course. My current feeling is that I need to work on my current big fiction WIP (work in progress). The problem is that the WIP is in the really awkward middle place where […]
August Creative Contemplations
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August Creative Contemplations I feel like I start every month in review with things that were hard. Anxiety kicked my butt for parts of August as I got to be “reviewed” at my day job over my physical needs. It has always been a negative experience that is poorly managed and going through it makes […]