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How to Craft Characters: Deepening with Backstory
This is the third post in this series on crafting characters. To recap, here are the components I consider when crafting my characters–and these are in order of importance: Voice Desperate need...
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The Writing Is All That Really Matters
I get a lot of emails (and tweets, tumblr asks, facebook messages, etc.) asking me about my process–and that’s great! I love sharing what I do, and I love hearing about what YOU do. But the thing is,...
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A Writer’s Basic Toolbox
As promised in the last issue of the Misfits & Daydreamers, I’ll share links to past posts each Monday throughout NaNoWriMo. Why no new content? Well, I did a survey a few weeks ago, and of the 100...
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Digging Deeper into the Writing Toolbox
As promised for NaNoWriMo, I’ll share links to past posts each Monday organizing all my past content so that YOU can more easily find what you’re looking for. In addition to the organized posts, I have...
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The Productive Writer
I got a bit behind during week 2 of NaNo. Some major changes happened in the trajectory of my projects (I’ll explain in Friday’s newsletter), so I’ve got some MAJOR catching up to do this week! Anyway,...
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Facing Fear and Tackling Writer’s Block
As promised for NaNoWriMo, I’m organizing all my past content so that YOU can more easily find what you’re looking for. During week 1, I covered A Writer’s Basic Toolbox, and in week 2, I dug deeper...
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First Readers, Revising, & Publication
CONGRATULATIONS to everyone who not only won NaNoWriMo but who made ANY progress this month. I finished with 32,000 new words, and I’m really proud of that progress! New words are always better than no...
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Detox December (and Rejuvenation January)
As I recently discussed in a Misfits & Daydreamers issue, whole-assing (a.k.a. full immersion) is the only way I can get a book written. I need to fall so deeply into the story that no outside...
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5 Things I Learned in 2014 & Some Resolutions for 2015
I think of 2013 as “The Year I Learned To Accept Publishing For What It Is (and to stop whining about it)”, and that year held a lot of rough, pretty low patches for me. I wasn’t the only one. In fact,...
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Changing the Focus of My Blog
Hi everyone!! *waves frantically* It has been 2 months since I last posted–can you believe it? It doesn’t actually feel that long, and I won’t lie: it has been great for my creative self to not have to...
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