Tag: advice
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Writing ‘guy’?
How is it that something I never thought much about before last week is now popping up everywhere? I just checked out The Seekers blog, and their latest post is about “writing ‘guy.’” Last week, after checking out another post, I found myself asking if guys really speak in shorter sentences. (It was something I’d […]
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Making progress
I had the day off but did not spend it with the Boyfriend, which was a bummer for me, but great for the novel. I headed to Starbucks, ordered some low-fat coffee cake and an unsweetened iced tea and set up camp near an outlet. A couple of hours later, I’d rewritten a couple of […]
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Definitely more work than I thought
Got my critique back this afternoon, and I was right: The manuscript definitely needs some help. I’m not going to lie: It was a bit unnerving to see all that “red ink” on my pages. But it was also edifying, because she said a lot of the same things I’ve been thinking. Just the other […]
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Derailed or disheartened?
I just might be a little bit of both tonight. In the past two days, I’ve only done the bare minimum: Read through a couple of chapters, trying to edit and polish them yet again. I also spent some time clearing out my gmail inbox. I’m the editor for the Northern Arizona RWA newsletter, and […]