Publishing
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Here we are in 2024! A new year, with 366 (Leap Year!) new days to make things happen and reach some goals. 2023 was super productive and very successful. I hope to repeat the trend in 2024, only better because I’m taking what I learned in 2023 and refining it to better hit my goals.…
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December Results Finish To Have A Heart I finished the first draft of the novel in December! I finished a day early too! Now, it’s time to figure out what my next project is! Publish more online I have published a lot online this month. I’m happy with what I’ve accomplished over the last few…
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September has come and gone in a blur of writing and not writing as much as I should have, work, personal accomplishments and everything else in between. If it was mildly important, it happened in September it seemed! Despite the craziness, I did manage to accomplish a few goals. September Results Writing Edits on Book…
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January is now gone (and has been for a few days), and February is in full swing! I made a few writing goals last month, and there are always more goals to come! Here’s how I did in January: January Results Write at least 500 words a day: As hard as I tried to write…
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Here we are again at the start of a new year and a new decade. It seems like just yesterday that it was 2019 (yes, I did make that joke). Here’s some of the cool stuff I did and created in 2019 and the statistics to go along with it, because I enjoy numbers. In…
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The internet is full of people and ideas and social media platforms. There are hundreds and hundreds of posting challenges happening at any time. In September, I participated in Instawrimo. Instawrimo is a thirty day posting challenge on Instagram for getting prepared for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Here’s what I learned over the last…
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I have been so busy with work and writing that I have let the blog fall to the wayside and I apologize. June is going to be hectic, as I am trying to edit one novel, and type up my handwritten draft of another before June 30th. Hectic? Yes! Blog-worthy? Maybe… Stay tuned!
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What are you writing right now? Is it a novel, an essay, a smut filled fanfiction, literally anything else where you put words on paper? First: Good for you! You’re writing. Second: Don’t stop writing and don’t ever throw it away. It’s important to your writing craft. Every Piece You Write is Important. Think about…
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Over the past three weeks of How To Tuesdays concerning characters we have talked about how to find characters, how to name them, and how to develop characters. This week, is not necessarily a new How To, it is an addition to the rest of the information we have talked about. This week, we are…
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Progress is measured in several different ways. If you are an athlete, progress is measured by how well you perform at your sport or sports. If you are an artist, progress is measured by your art portfolio. If you are a writer, progress is measured by words written on the page, and the amount of…
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Writers write. Or so you would think. Do artists art, or musicians music? Well, yes, in a way, but there is more to being a writer, artist and musician than just a word that describes what we do. Being a writer is more than just putting words on a page, it’s also reading and editing…
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When we write, when we put words down on the page, we often want to be heard, we want our words to mean something. Sometimes that means just putting words on the page, and sometimes that means something huge, like publishing. Publishing is one of the best opportunities for writers, and it is a huge…