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Momming Monday: OCCUPY! The Children
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Writing With Purpose
If you’ve ever had a glorious stretch of time in front of you (or a hurried ten minutes) and sat down (or stood up) to power through your daily word count only to know you were doomed from the first [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: You’re Never Too Old
I’ve been doing this awhile. For like, decades. For some writers, that’s not even that long. For others, it can seem like geological time. But the plain truth of the matter is that this is a profession where the overnight [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: What’s In The Toybox?
No…not that toybox.
And not that one either, you pervs!
In every story, you can find Toys. Your characters don’t exist in a vacuum, and they don’t roll around in bubbles. Unless they do, and as I’ve said before in [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Truth In Fiction
There are eight million stories in the Naked City…
Why do you write stories? Why not articles, or blog posts, or shopping lists with grand flourishes and curlicues? It’s because you have something to say.
Sure, we can say that we have [...]
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Momming Monday: Finding Your Feet
You can trot along feeling like you’ve settled into your pace, and you’ve got this “walking on two feet” thing down pat, and suddenly look down to find–or rather to NOT find–your feet. You don’t know where those suckers went, [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Be The Blockbuster
Wouldn’t it be fantastic if there were some secret formula or magic pill that would guarantee your book would be a blockbuster? Like that movie, [REDACTED] where that guy [REDACTED] and ended up fighting the villains at the top of [...]
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Momming Mondays: Making Sense Of Scents
Every parent I know, sooner or later, ends up with a hyper-developed olfactory system of some sort. Whether it comes from being pregnant, living with a pregnant woman, or just being that aware of all the ways your kids can [...]
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Momming Mondays: Extra Credit Means You Deserve Basic Credit
I talk a lot about all the ways we can steal time, multi-task, and otherwise sneak extra productivity into our lives. Now I’m talking about making room for something just as important as productivity. Credit.
We do not, as a rule, [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Avoiding Zombies
Today, we’re talking Zombies.
Put your brains away, the shambling horrors I’m talking about are the ones that shuffle through your manuscript as storylines, characters, interesting events, and bits of action that, like the unquiet dead, do not play well with [...]
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