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“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put on word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.” – Neil Gaiman There are many ways to plan and develop a novel, and it’s up to you as a writer to figure out what works best…
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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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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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This August I have been trying to compile all the writing I have done for my novels over the past couple of years. What I thought was going to be simply a matter of copying and pasting has turned into a whole scavenger hunt for my work. In order to access it whenever I want,…
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It has been nearly a year since I have posted anything to this blog. With everything that’s happened over the past eighteen months or so and trying to adjust to it has left little room for creative thought. Returning to this blog is not an acknowledgement that things are better now, though in some ways…
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Nearly every morning, I brew a cup of coffee and sit down to write in my journal. Ever since middle school, I have kept a journal to some degree, but one of my resolutions for 2020 was to write in my journal every morning I didn’t have to rush out the door to go somewhere…
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It has been well over two month since my last post, and a lot has happened in my life and the world around us since then. With everything going on, I have been feeling completely uninspired to write. During this quarantine, I have even dismantled most of my writer’s platform in the fear of becoming…
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What I have discovered about myself recently is that I set goals that are extremely hard to reach. At times, I have even changed goals that are challenging but still obtainable into larger goals that I just can’t quite meet. The problem with this is, even though I have achieved or even surpassed the original…
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