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Sooz’s Guide to Revisions, Lesson 6: Typing in your changes and feeling GOOD.
Wow. You did it. You finished Lesson 5, and now you’re almost at the end! Can you FEEL THE EXCITEMENT? This lesson will be (compared to the others) a piece of cake. The first part is completely...
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LTWF: Writing a Saleable Book
Recently, someone asked me: What is required to make a book saleable? That is a rather large-in-scope question, and as such, I’m afraid my answer will be kinda vague. All the same, I thought it was...
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LTWF: On the Art of REwriting
It’s NaNoWriMo month. In other words, it is currently hell-on-earth for many writers around the globe. A self-induced hell that anyone who isn’t participating in just CAN’T UNDERSTAND. Yes, we clearly...
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Not Having Internet Kinda Sucks…So Does Writing Sequels
I’m back. We won’t even discuss how hard it was to get the internet back. It was an ordeal. An EPIC ordeal. BUT, I came out with two wonderful things… Thing #1 Oh, what’s that? Why yes, it IS a book....
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Need help revising? NaNoEdMo starts soon!
Did you write a novel in a month during the hideous (yet exhilarating) NaNoWriMo? Or perhaps you’ve just got a novel lying around that needs some serious TLC. Are you lost on where to begin? Do you...
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Do One Thing Well
I have vanished from the blogosphere…and twitter is all but abandoned as well. Even emails are backed up so badly, it will take days to unknot and answer them all. That’s alright, though. Why? Because...
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When Something Changes Mid-Draft
So, this question came in from Alex last week, and I thought I’d address it in a post today. I’d really like to read about how you handle it when you’re in the middle of a draft and suddenly you...
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Approaching Your First Novel
Left to right: Mary Lindsey, Brigid Kemmerer, Victoria Scott, Brodi Ashton, Erin Bowman, ME Sorry for the brief internet absence. I was in Texas for a week (it was AMAZING). Edgefest was a blast and I...
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Writing is hard…
…so don’t give up. I don’t really have anything else to say today other than that. I’m in the middle of book 3 revisions, renovating my house, preparing lesson plans for the YAGB tour, and revising...
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Writing 3-Dimensional Characters
Recently, I received this question from Kaila in my inbox: I was wondering, could you please do a post on your “For Writer’s” page about creating 3-dimensional characters? At first, I was totally...
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