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Sunday, January 11, 2015

Adventures in Pantsing: A Plotter Tries to Cut Loose

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The first ghost story I ever wrote sucked royally. It was derivative as hell, like everything I wrote in middle school. I named it afte...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

8 Lessons Learned from Taking 2 Years to Finish 1 Novel

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What, me, self promote? Perish the thought. I'd never be so brazen as to tell you that it's available for pre-order on Amazon o...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

First Impressions: "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt

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I've been looking forward to reading The Goldfinch ever since it came out. It sat, neglected, on my Kindle for months while I worked ...
Saturday, June 7, 2014

How Gossip Girl Helped Me Revise My Plot

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I'm a huge Gossip Girl fan. Deride if you must, but know that George Sand being the writer a character most wants to have dinner wit...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Book Review: Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers

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I don't normally read YA, but the description of this book hooked me instantly: Medieval nuns in Brittany teach young women how to be...
Friday, April 18, 2014

14 Examples and 2,300 Words on How to Sharpen Your Sentences

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I just finished the third draft of a book that’s going to take at least five drafts to finish. The biggest problem until now was sheer...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Creative Image Creation Roundup, Part 3: The Mules

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I made this nifty 3D book cover image using GIMP and Clipping Magic, one of the tools below. This is Part 3 and the final installmen...