Category: writing
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Beautiful People #27
Today I’m linking up with the Beautiful People meme hosted by Cait @ Paper Fury and Sky @ Further Up and Further In. If you are unfamiliar with the Beautiful People meme, it could be summed up with the subtitle “In which we writer folk do our best to answer a list of questions (provided…
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July Recap- Reading, Writing, and Other Stuff (Maybe? Do I even do other stuff in my life??)
I did a lot this July. And by that I mean I left the house (multiple times!), read a bunch of books, wrote a lot, and actually ate salad. I am very proud of myself. It’s amazing what you can do with a whip behind you or a school in front of you APPROACHING AT…
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Weapons for Fighting Writer’s Block
If you are like 100% of writer’s, you are familiar with the Block of doom that belongs to all of our kind, though we never asked for it and we certainly don’t want it. Unfortunately, any time we manage to lose it, some well-meaning jogger or visiting botanist sees it sticking out of a bush…
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Beautiful People- Author Writing Process Edition
Today I’m linking up with Paper Fury’s Beautiful People meme. Usually the questions are about the characters, but this month they are about the author. Which is… Which is me. So prepare yourself for profound insights into my writing life. THE QUESTIONS: 1. How do you decide which project to work on? Ha.…
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My 5 Biggest Writer Pet Peeves (When it Comes to Readers)
As you may have guessed, I am a writer. I suppose it must be pretty obvious from my post on The Writing Process. How else would I be able to describe it so PERFECTLY? There are many challenges a writer faces throughout their writing life. Writer’s block, feelings that your work is garbage, loss of contact…
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Sandwiches
A good book is like a sandwich. It is made up of many different components. The combinations of such components are practically limitless, but the important thing is that, whatever the combination, the components work together to make a nutritious, well rounded meal. While
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The Writing Process
Writing is one of the most difficult and dangerous pass times in the universe. No, you do not risk being eaten or stabbed or drowned or smashed by a piano (unless, of course, you do your writing in a place where you are susceptible to such fates), but the writer daily endures unspeakable agony and…
Trivialities 