A Holistic Description of the Editing Process
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Confession of a NaNoWriMo Cheat
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All right. I admit. I cheated. I participated in National Novel Writing Month under false pretenses. I didn’t do it on purpose. It just happened. You see, NaNoWriMo is a useful publicity stunt. Writers get themselves all fired up to write 50,000 words in one month. They set goals, they get pep talks, they…
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Clearing Up the “Hybrid” in Publishing
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This post is a reprint of my article in Indies Unlimited on Tuesday, July 14. So you’re a beginning writer, and you loved writing the book, but now you’re faced with the dreaded publishing process. Becoming an independent author sounds just too complex, but you don’t really know how to attract an agent or a traditional…
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Indies Unlimited Post: How to Write a Fight (or Love) Scene, Part 2
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This entry was posted in Indies Unlimited on Tuesday, April 24. In case you missed the original, here it is again: All right. You’ve done the foreplay, the participants have gone through the rituals required by their society, the emotions are high enough to require action. How are you going to write it? What…
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Indies Unlimited Post: How to Write a Fight (or Love) Scene, Part 1
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I was writing a post on fight scenes for the Indies Unlimited crowd when I realized that many of the same techniques and dangers I was discussing could be applied equally to love scenes. Stands to reason, I suppose. Two of the most important and emotional events in the human life cycle. So it’s up…