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Editing Lessons
I’ve concluded that when I write during NaNoWriMo that I write complete and utter crap. That’s not true. Since June …Continue reading »
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End Of Vacation
Back from six days away. We dropped the boy off a church camp. Apparently he wowed everybody with his preaching. …Continue reading »
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The Professional Liar
One of my wishes is to someday be able to call myself a writer. I’ll argue I cannot do this …Continue reading »
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Reading Out Loud
I belong to an informal writing group. We meat once a month for brunch where we share our work. I …Continue reading »
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Writing Checklists
Sometimes, or maybe often, we get caught up in our writing and lose track of all the aspects that make …Continue reading »
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Modern Grande Clichés: Sex, Profanity, and Writing About Writing Novels
Clichés are slippery little buggers. They creep into our writing even when we sleep with one eye open and a …Continue reading »
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Recent Writings — Canada Writes Creative Non-fiction
I spent most of the six weeks ending January 31st on an entry for Canada Writes’ Creative Non-fiction contest. I’ve had …Continue reading »
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Recent Writings – 2012 NaNoWriMo
I am planning to attack my 2011 story with a major overhaul. A have gobs of feedback I haven’t looked …Continue reading »
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Swirling Around the Bottomless Whirlpool
We have a beautiful whirlpool in our river, the Reversing Falls whirlpool. It’s only visible at low tide, and when …Continue reading »
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Writing To Prompts
I started a writing group at our library where we write to prompts. I call it Writers Huddle. I usually …Continue reading »
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The Periodic Poem
I don’t know if this is a type of poem, but it is a type of sentence. As far as …Continue reading →
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Does Family Count?
You know, as reviewers of your fiction. My dad stayed over night last night and wanted to read my work. …Continue reading →
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Novel Progress [2012]
I’ve been busy this summer, writing-wise. Otherwise it has been pretty slow and laid back. I am unemployed and off …Continue reading →
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Doing it the write way!
Last Monday or Tuesday, maybe Wednesday — sheesh — I began another edit of my novel. I have a couple …Continue reading →
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Social Media Sucks
I’m not referring to its general uselessness but its aid to aspiring authors. It comes down to two questions: what do we …Continue reading →
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Editors, A Mysterious Breed
I am almost finished a short, short story of 1,440 words. I plan on submitting it to Canada Writes. As …Continue reading →
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Novels High School Teachers Teach: version #4 is in the books
In The Books I am writing novels. I wrote a novel just this November for NaNoWriMo. No, it is not …Continue reading →
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2012 NaNoWriMo Version 5 Completed!
I feel drained. The 80cm of snow we’ve received since last Wednesday (this is Sunday) have something to do with …Continue reading →
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The Long, Compound, Subordinate Sentence
I had a discussion the other day about sentence length. “High tension prose should use short sentences, and languid prose …Continue reading →
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Slump Broken
I have not been working hard on my novels for the last couple of months. I don’t know what the …Continue reading →
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