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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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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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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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I am one of the fortunate people of the world who has been able to maintain their job by working from home. Working for a school that already had a virtual learning system in place for our students who needed it, we had a smoother transition into working from home than most people. Still, my…
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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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Today marks the beginning of the second week I have been working from home, teaching my classes virtually. Thankfully, the school I work for already had a system of virtual learning in place that we were all trained for because many of our students had different conditions leading them to take classes from the comfort…
C. Sloan Lewis | Your Virtual Writing Coach 