Tag: #inspiration
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8 Ways to Improve your Novel
8 Ways to Improve your Novel To protect myself in 2024 I decided that I’d start charging for my ability to developmental edit a manuscript. After ten years of editor feedback, working with professionals, getting and giving constructive feedback, and the finalization of my Post Graduate Certificate of Creative Writing, I was ready. But how…
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The Writer 2023 Couldn’t Kill
2023 was for some, not enough. I get that, but after the last five years feeling like that I took a few steps back, and decided I wasn’t going to keep second guessing myself. Hold up. This isn’t another 2024 resolutions page. Because these goals are already won, and I’m going to carry them into…
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My Writing Journey – turning forty
I reread the very first post I wrote on this website, not quite some ten years later. But it’s been ten years since I made the decision to start. To publish. Whatever that meant. It’s a good heartfelt and authentic post. I love that woman so much because she had no idea how much this…
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A Neurodiverse Anthology: Embrace the Silence
Deadset Press is open for submissions on their neurodiverse anthology: Embrace the Silence!
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Kirkus Review: Echo of the Evercry
Echo of the Evercry: Kirkus Review “Satisfying character arcs, a deeply felt sense of sisterhood… and a bit of romance are the cherries on top.”
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Notes for Nightmares
My mother told me bedtime stories to send us to sleep. She kept telling them as we grew older, and the stories darker. She never meant to send us to bed with nightmares… not always. From the ring wraiths hunting us down, to the malevolent Nargun lurking to our door. The monsters outside might have…
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Great Expectations – Getting Feedback at Every Level
Great Expectations; Getting Feedback at Every Level What to expect from the people who help your story become the best version of itself, and how you process that feedback.
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Not Every Idea is a Novel
Not Every Idea is a Novel – short stories help you find the heart of your inspiration, the idea, and see if it is just an idea, or a novel. #writingtips #writers #amwriting #writerslife #shortstories #novels
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Worthiness of Dreams
Worthiness of Dreams – My head is a strange place with big wolves inside who gnaw on the bones of my might. Who collapse this skeleton of dreams into splinters. What else did I deserve other than to be rejected? #writing #inspiration #writerslife #dreams
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30 Days of Nano – Word Count
30 Days of Nano – Mini-blog series; find more tips to surviving #Nanowrimo2021
E. J. Dawson 