Ah, cliches. When it comes to “how to write”, there are tons of them. And “write what you know” is probably the most overused. (Though “show don’t tell” is a very close runner-up.) However, what happens when what you “know” doesn’t make interesting fiction? Yes, I know, there are tons of things you can do [...]
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I have a question for my fellow writers today: Where do ideas come from? Sometimes the strangest places, I know, but where do most of your story ideas come from? This all comes up for two reasons. First, I have been brainstorming ideas and some of them seem to come out of thin air. (If [...]
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I’ve been thinking about this a while, which is why I didn’t post on Sunday what I am posting today. I had thought about it, but wasn’t positive I wanted to change my plans/goals again so soon after setting them. After more thought, though, I think this is best. I am amending my ROW80 goals. [...]
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Well, it’s been a slow start to ROW this go-round. For me, anyway. It’s been fun surfing the blogs and seeing how many people are involved and how many of them have gone totally crazy with their goals (and the number of people meeting those goals!). It’s great. For me, though, I knew it would [...]
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You may have come here today expecting knitting progress pictures. Well, they’re not here. Instead I’ll be posting about writing stuff. Back at the beginning of this year, I participated in the Round of Words in 80 Days (aka ROW80), which is an ongoing writing challenge where the participants set their own goals. Like a [...]
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Have you ever noticed how hard it is to set a new routine? I mean, ever REALLY noticed it? I sometimes think we don’t notice these things until we HAVE to. This is something I’ve thought about before, but in an abstract fashion. I’ve never really tracked it before. Of course, I’m only sort-of tracking [...]
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February is essentially over already. Can you believe it? I sure can’t. So, in February, I had planned to get chapter one of iAnnie written, to get it posted on my online crit group, and to do at least 2 crits within my group. I haven’t done any of that. If it weren’t for the [...]
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It’s been a while since I’ve done Sunday Summaries for A Round of Words. Oops. Shame on me. However, in my defense, I’ve never been used to blogging on Sundays. And I’ve been really busy with Life Stuff, which was one of the reasons I joined ROW in the first place — I don’t feel [...]
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… not that I haven’t been usually belated for the check-ins this whole challenge. But, there actually is progress to report this time! So, yay! First of all, as I mentioned, I switched my main goal to be 200 words a day, 5 days a week. I’ve been mostly making that. Some days more, some [...]
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. . . Okay. I admit it. I am indeed a slacker. I was supposed to write a Round of Words blog post yesterday. I didn’t. (I played Epic Mickey instead. Awesome, awesome game, especially for a Disney fanatic like yours truly.) I planned to write one today to make up for it. I didn’t. [...]
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