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Happy Blogoversary: A year of practicing at social media
A year ago today I didn’t have a blog. I’d heard ad nauseam about the importance of a consistent online presence for writers, and I challenged myself to blog once a week for an entire year. As someone...
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Yardsticks and success
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision” ~ Bertrand Russell I’ve had...
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How I wrote Iris
I finished the polish pass on my space opera novel! I wrote the first chapter in 2011, before attending Viable Paradise, then set it aside for most of 2012 while working on other writing projects. It...
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Things I love: Speculate! podcast
I listen to podcasts during my commute, while exercising, and while walking the dog. One of my favorite writing podcasts of late is Speculate!, the speculative fiction podcast for writers, readers, and...
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2013: The year in numbers
1 novel written: Iris. My primary goal was to complete this novel. 4 short stories written. My goal was to write at least one new story. 38 short-story submissions (4 responses pending). 1 short story...
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Things I love: The Submissions Grinder
The Submissions Grinder was launched about a year ago, when Duotrope went behind a pay wall. Like Duotrope, the Grinder is a submission tracker and market database for writers. However, the developers...
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Back from Rainforest Writers Village
… and finally on the upswing from flu/bronchitis/whooping cough, whatever circle of hell I’ve been living or dying in this past week. Rainforest was fabulous, as it is. Patrick does a bang-up job...
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Quick start guide to beta reading
In the last seven minutes of the sixth episode of The Story Board, Mary Robinette Kowal and Patrick Rothfuss talk about beta readers. It struck me as a useful, straightforward approach, and I wanted to...
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2012: The year in numbers
What are your goals for 2013?1 novel completed 1 (other) novel begun 5 short stories written 46 short stories submitted 2 short stories accepted (both from 2011) 48 short stories critiqued for others 1...
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A drop in the bucket
I’ll admit I’ve never been terribly sympathetic when people complain over lack of writing time. Everyone struggles with time management and figuring out how to create in spite of other commitments....
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Musings on point of view
The Internet is full of champions for first person point-of-view, and a fair bit of insistence that no YA book in third person will ever get published*. To be clear, I get that first person has an...
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Scrivener tip: Text to speech
You know those optical illusion emails that your mother-in-law won’t stop forwarding to you? With weirdly colored, too-big fonts and plenty of white space so you get carpal tunnel while scrolling down...
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Happy Blogoversary: A year of practicing at social media
A year ago today I didn’t have a blog. I’d heard ad nauseam about the importance of a consistent online presence for writers, and I challenged myself to blog once a week for an entire year. As someone...
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Yardsticks and success
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision” ~ Bertrand Russell I’ve had...
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What got you into writing?
In listening to interviews, I’m always a tad horrified when the author gets asked about their genesis as a writer. The common truth seems to be “What do you mean, I’ve always written,” and I feel the...
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Openings
I’ve been thinking a lot about craft lately. I finished up one project and always feel a little nervy about starting another and not screwing up. During drafting and revision I sink into tunnel vision,...
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