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  • Live Your Writing Truth

    Live Your Writing Truth

    Recently, there was a post circling around Reddit written by a man who felt betrayed by his wife for writing a book on her lunch break that earned $100,000. Some have said that this was a fake post, but the number of women who have spoken up on other social media sites, including Reddit, about…

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  • The Importance of Writing Consistently

    Recently, I have finished a book in two months and am ahead in my word count for NaNoWriMo all while teaching full-time and finishing grad school. Because of this, a question I keep getting from my students and coworkers is “how do you find the time?” Here’s the deal: I don’t have much time for…

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  • 5 Things D&D Taught Me about Writing

    Since I was a pimple faced teenager, I have been playing the famous, and sometimes infamous, table top game of Dungeons and Dragons. Now, as a pimple faced twenty-seven-year-old, I have more than a decade of playing, both as a DM and a player. While there are many great reasons to play D&D, the one…

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  • Two Lessons Learned from Writing a Book in Two Months

    Exactly fifty-three days ago, I began a novel based on a single idea that had been swirling around in my head for some time. Currently, this novel sits at 320 pages with 110,000 words. While it is still very much a work in progress (the editing stages have only just begun for the first part…

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  • The Blurring Flow of Time

    Time is beginning to blur together. I did not realize it had been almost a month since my last blog post until I looked at the dates. Tomorrow is Memorial Day, and it seems that holidays and the change in temperature are the only things helping me to keep track of the flow of time.…

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  • When Writers Block Has You in a Strangle Hold

    I have been struggling the past month or so with working through writer’s block. When I was younger, I thought writer’s block was just an excuse people gave themselves for being lazy, but over the past few years, I have had several instances of writer’s block that have taken months and months of productive writing…

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