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Meet Peter Bankston
One of the strategies I employed while revising You Are Here was to read the entire book aloud to myself. (I didn’t do this for The Love Thing, and I regret it.) If anything sounded unnatural to my ears, I … Continue reading
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Sydney Carton, The Beginning
While I wait to hear from the publisher about my own book, I now have time to give a shout-out to my friend and fellow indie author Eileen Granfors, whose novel, Sydney’s Story, has been published in paperback this past week. Over … Continue reading
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Surprised By Joy
Last Friday I went to my neighbor Clive Matson’s house for his monthly Poetry Saloon. (I’ve written about Clive before; he’s a poet and creative writing teacher whose website is here.) In past months I’d gone with samples from “You … Continue reading
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100-Day Novel Writing Challenge: Lessons Learned
In the end, there wasn’t much suspense: the 100th day of my 100-day novel writing challenge came and went on April 25, even though I managed to finish the project on April 15 — on day 90. I want to thank … Continue reading
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Day 90: The Job Is Done
It’s a holy mess and I don’t remember half of what I’ve written. But it’s a 102,000 words long, it has characters I love, and most of all, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. I am very happy … Continue reading
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You Are Here … Is Coming!
I’ve now completed ten weeks, or 70 days, on my journey to write a novel draft. I had given myself 100 days to write it, but since I’ve managed to write without missing a day since I started the journey … Continue reading
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100-Day Novel Writing Challenge: Week Eight
Before I met my partner I was never good at writing lists. When I lived alone I’d try to remember what I needed to buy at the supermarket, and if I forgot something, I’d just run to the supermarket and … Continue reading
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Seamus and the Art of Repetition
“I don’t know if I ever mentioned this,” Gail Collins cheekily wrote in her New York Times op-ed column yesterday, “but Mitt Romney once drove to Canada with the family Irish setter on the roof of the car.” I’ve been reading … Continue reading
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100-Day Novel Challenge: Week Seven
For the past few weeks my writing day has started not with actually writing, but with my usual rounds on the Internet: checking my Facebook page (no new messages), checking out my Twitter feed (no new followers), checking out my … Continue reading
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An Interview with Eileen Granfors
A couple of weekends ago I attended the 2012 San Francisco Writer’s Conference, where among a crowd of talented writers I had the pleasure of meeting author, blogger, and Top 500 Amazon reviewer Eileen Granfors. An enthusiastic writer and reader … Continue reading
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