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NaNoWriMo Tip #17: Action In the Dialogue
Sir John Gilbert’s 1849 painting: The Plays of William Shakespeare, containing scenes and characters from several of William Shakespeare’s plays. Since the artist died in 1897, this work is now in the...
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NaNoWriMo Tip #18: Focus on the Intent
One thing that is very difficult at this stage in the NaNoWriMo project is the daily grind. Some writers find it difficult to crank out a scene or will bog down in telling the story or moving the...
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NaNoWriMo Tip #20: Write Blind
This blog is related to the blog post I wrote yesterday. Often when I write, I write whole chunks of text and then the Inner Critic Faerie pops in and tells me to change what I just wrote because it...
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NaNoWriMo Tip #21: Abandon All Hope All Ye Who Enter Here
Today’s title comes from Dante’s Inferno, the words written upon the gates of hell. You may be feeling like that right now even if you have planned this NaNoWriMo novel to the teeth. It happens. If...
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NaNoWriMo Tip #22: Time Out
If you are in a comfortable place right now in word count with the NaNoWriMo, then by all means take a break. Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S., and if you are a hardcore writer like me then you will...
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NaNoWriMo Tip #23: The Recorder
English: Sony Voice Recorder Deutsch: Sony-Diktiergerät (Photo credit: Wikipedia) For those of you who have nothing to do but write all day long and all night, this blog post is not for you. I am sure...
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NaNoWriMo Tip #27: We’re So Proud of You!
As I peruse the blogs today I find many of the NaNoWriMo writers have completed their goal of 50,000 words ahead of schedule. This is great news! If you haven’t quite reached the goal, then keep at...
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NaNoWriMo Tip #28: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
So maybe you’ve finished the NaNoWriMo or maybe you are slaving away at the final pages (and if you are, you need to stop reading this RIGHT NOW and get back to work), but I’m sure that as you peruse...
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A New Personal Record
This last weekend I worked on my novel marathon style. Saturday I managed to participate in the annual Norman Holiday Parade, dressing up as a special forces scout trooper and marching with my...
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New Podcast Up: Word Counts and Trailer Spoilers
On this episode we discuss word counts versus daily writing goals and how we meet personal goals of finishing our writing projects. We share several methods that help us reach our goals as writers and...
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