Would you like a trick to keep the momentum going between chapters? One of my biggest frustrations in writing a novel is that I can’t write it all in one sitting. Seriously. I’ve tried. I once wrote a novel in 10 days. But even then, I had to sleep, eat…maybe have a conversation with the other people in the house. Still, it was the closest thing to being able to simply step into the story and download it from my brain. I love being able to write a novel in a concentrated amount of time because the storyline is never far from me and while it’s exhausting, the story always seems to emerge with fewer jolts in the plot. However, like most authors, I have a busy schedule filled with […]
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Seven Things Every Writer Must Do: Part One
Seven Things Every Writer Must Do: Part One You plot and develop the characters that readers will fall in love with. Sit at the computer and type. All of those things are necessary but there are also seven things every writer simply has to do in order to be successful. Over the next seven weeks, I’ll be blogging about those every Saturday. Part One: Dream Without Limits If you spend much time around me, you’ll eventually hear me ask, “What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?” It’s a valid question because I believe most writers put a lid on their potential. They could do so much more but they don’t because their dreams are way too small. For a writer who wants to succeed in […]
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You can’t help it. It’s time. Really time. You’ve been writing and rewriting this book for eons. Or at least it feels like eons. You want to submit it, get going on your stellar writing career. Time’s a wastin’! Maybe you haven’t been working on it for eons, but you went to a conference and you heard an editor say she was really looking for the next great romance author to groom and you have just the story. Or finally, one of the BIG PUBLISHERS is actively seeking speculative fiction and your space navy story is ready for the picking. Perhaps your story has been through a critique or edit of some kind. A reader (mom, dad, sister, best friend, hubby, wifey) LOVED it. They want more! […]
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