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Too Many Words About Fountain Pens
I get back to posting and immediately take a break to talk about fountain pens for about a thousand words.
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The Intervention, or Killing My Darlings With Help
You need to kill your darlings. Good friends will line them up in front of the firing squad for you.
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Why I Write Horror (and Children’s Stories)
I seem like a generally well-adjusted, kind person, so I normally get asked pretty quickly why I write horror. I have reasons (and it’s not just a fertile imagination).
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Another Season, Another Schedule
I love my schedule. It gives me guardrails, and I need it. I also need to be flexible enough to throw the whole thing out and make a new one every few years (or months).
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What I Learned Finishing My First Novel Rewrite
The rough draft of my novel took just five months. The first rewrite took over a year. I learned a few things in the process.
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That Magic Moment (That’s Surrounded by Work)
There is a magical moment, one that happens at least once per finished piece of writing, when I know that something needs to be written, and why. It takes work to get there, but it’s the most important moment in my writing process.
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Music for Writing
I’m taking a break from writing to talk about writing… specifically, how music makes everything better.
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The One About Headphones
I’m taking a break from my novel to talk about something I care deeply about: headphones and adding a soundtrack to writing.
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My iPad Pro is My Favorite Writing Tool
I have been thinking a lot about how I use my iPad for writing because I don’t have my iPad right now. I had to send it in for repairs after incident with my son and some hot chocolate, and now I'm enumerating the ways it has been great for my writing.
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The Push
This weekend, I finished the rough draft of my first novel, and it wrapped up (one of many) big pushes I have experienced trying to get any big project across the finish line. This time, I made notes for my future self.
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Holiday Writing
I wrote every day over the holidays, and ended up finding the joy of “margin” to be less stressed going forward.
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My Winter 2020 Writing Schedule
For those interested, this post is a “behind-the-scenes” look at one of things I'm doing to crank out about 6k-7k words/week toward my novel (and none of this counts).
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New Book Sneak Peek
Okay, so this is different, but I thought it would be fun to put out a sneak peek of one of the chapters I was just working on for my book.
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NaNoWriMo and How I Quit Before it Began
This year, I signed up for — and then quit — NaNoWriMo in all of twenty-four hours.
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A Short Dissertation on Mechanical Keyboards
Seeing as I've been busy working on my first novel, I thought I'd take a break from trying to be creative or inspirational to sing the praises of my favorite keyboards.
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Why I’m Trying to Write Fiction
So, I’m trying to write fiction again after… many years, and it feels scary, new, and interesting all at once.
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My Writing Process
I documented my writing and creative process for “cross-training” at work.