Thursday, December 31, 2020

Why My Last Year's Goals Failed (and no, it wasn't all because of COVID)

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I'm seeing lots of rueful laughter on social media right now about the folly of having bothered to purchase a planner for 2020. This was...
Monday, December 28, 2020

Lessons Learned from a Project Dreaded

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Well, I knew I couldn't live with myself (with my shamefully procrastinating self) if I didn't complete this one long-overdue, mega-...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

The Kind of Writing I Hate Most: or The Terror of Having to Write Something You Are Completely Unqualified to Write

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I have a writing project I have been procrastinating on for MONTHS.  It was due October 1, and it's now mid-December. Every single day I...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2020

The Unexpected Difference Our Words Can Make

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Writers write for many reasons. Surely one of the most important is to connect with readers: to have our words make a difference to some rea...
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Monday, November 16, 2020

Sparking a Book Idea: Part IV

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CONTINUATION OF THE PREVIOUS THREE POSTS IN WHICH I GROPE TOWARD AN IDEA FOR MY LATEST BOOK I had my idea fairly well worked out on many pag...
Sunday, November 15, 2020

Sparking a Book Idea: Part III

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CONTINUATION FEOM PART II, IN WHICH THE IDEA THAT SPARKED THE STORY ENDED UP PLAYING NO ROLE IN THE ACTUAL STORY AT ALL! At this point in th...
Saturday, November 14, 2020

Sparking a Book Idea: Part II

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CONTINUATION OF PART I, IN WHICH I GET THE FIRST STORY-SPARK FOR A BOOK! So I had the teensiest spark of a book idea: I would write a book, ...