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Tag Archives: novel
Gearing Up for NaNoWriMo
My co-ML (Julia) and I are really buckling down and getting everything ready for NaNo. All of our events have been planned and scheduled, our swag has been ordered, and our novels are being planned. Well, my novel is already … Continue reading
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Tagged draft, finishing, NaNoWriMo, novel, outlining, short story, Siren Song, Writing
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Friday Check-In
Here’s my check in for this week… What I read this week: I finished Jim Butcher’s Death Masks What I’m continuing to read in the next week: Jasper Fforde’s The Big Over Easy Bram Stoker’s Dracula Whatever else was on … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, Bram Stoker, critique, Darkness Awakens, goals, Jasper Fforde, Jim Butcher, novel, outlining, Underground Writers
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The New Project
As I mentioned briefly in my goals post from last week, I have started a new project based on a writing prompt we had at the Underground Writers’ meeting last Thursday. After some pretty intense brainstorming and research, I’ve got … Continue reading
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Tagged Darkness Awakens, novel, outlining, Syren Song, Underground Writers, work-in-progress, Writing
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Short Story Frustration
So I’ve realized something of late, and it drives me a little nuts – I can’t write short stories. Well, I can, but rarely. What mostly happens is that people read it and say: “This isn’t a short story. This … Continue reading
New Goals, Outdoor Writing, and What I’ve Been Reading…
I’ve decided that Fridays will be my “check-in” posts. There was an Underground Writers’ meeting last night, so we discussed how we did on our goals from last week, and what our new goals were. Goals from last week: blog … Continue reading
Update
This is just a quick post to update you guys on where I am with my writing goals so far for the week. I have just finished edits and rewrites on Guilty Conscience, and have sent that out to the … Continue reading
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Tagged critique, Darkness Awakens, editing, goals, novel, short story, work-in-progress, Writing
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Writing Goals for this Week
The following are my writing goals for this week (before Thursday, actually – for the Underground Writers’ meeting). – edit Hide and Seek, which is the short story I submitted for critique last week – finish and send out Guilty … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, critique, Darkness Awakens, goals, novel, short story, Underground Writers, work-in-progress, Writing
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New Posting Schedule
First of all, I’ve obviously been slacking in the posting department, but that’s mostly because posting every single day was getting to be a little too much. In order to fix these issues, I’ve decided to change my blog posting … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, Darkness Awakens, goals, novel, outlining, productivity, short story, time management, work-in-progress, Writing
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Writing Method of Choice
I don’t know if anyone else has this issue, but here’s my dilemma: I love writing longhand. I feel as though my stories flow better that way, as though I put maybe just a little more thought into how I … Continue reading
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Tagged dilemma, editing, longhand, novel, short story, time management, typing, Writing
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Writing Goals for the Next Week
With the Underground Writers, we set weekly writing goals, and I’ve realized that this would be a good place to post them, seeing as this blog is all about my writing habits. So here they are: – continue outlining Darkness … Continue reading
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The Joys of Outlining
I have been spending the majority of my “writing time” outlining my current novel. It’s fun because these surprising things keep happening. A new character that I thought would be insignificant will have a severe impact on my main character, … Continue reading
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Plotting… and Scripting?
So I’m still deciding whether or not I want to participate in Script Frenzy (and by that I mean if I’ll be writing an actual script). I’m thinking of writing a script for the novel I worked on for NaNoWriMo, … Continue reading
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Tagged Darkness Awakens, NaNoWriMo, novel, plotting, school, script, ScriptFrenzy, work-in-progress, Writing
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Wow, I’m really bad at this whole “blogging regularly” thing…
Ok, so I haven’t posted here in a few months, apparently. So an update is in order: I wrote 50045 words (worked on Ayana’s Gift) in November for NaNo. No word padding, no devious tactics, just a lot of rambling… I … Continue reading
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Tagged Ayana's Gift, blogging, NaNoWriMo, novel, word count, Writing
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Finally, A New Post!
It has been a ridiculously long time since I have posted on this blog. I’ve been a little less absent on my writing group’s blog, but still. It’s time for an update! I have written quite a bit since the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ayana's Gift, blogging, camp, critique, Guardian, NaNoWriMo, novel, reading, school, short story, Underground Writers, word count, Writing
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Word Count 