Category: Living the Writing Life
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Self Promotion
It’s an uncomfortable reality to come to grips with for many writers. After all we’re the type that gives up sunlight, vitamin D metabolization and almost all other signs of a normal healthy life to sit closeted alone in a room with only the voices in our heads for company. Going out of our way…
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Let’s Talk Character
Character development for a short story, character development for a novel, character development for game – they’re all different and yet they all share valuable qualities. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, since over at my short fiction blog, Sarah aka Legion, I chronicle the stories of several very different characters all at…
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Am I Bored – Really?
Every writer dreads this feeling. Laying in more than 50 thousand words on a manuscript you really loved and then suddenly sitting in front of the keyboard – bored out of your mind. Ok maybe not every, every writer. I’ve rarely heard of this kind of fear in anyone else besides myself, certainly not at…
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The Writer’s 30
Today I’m going to talk about one of the most important and least discussed issues in the journey to professional writer: exercise. You see, a lot of people, even those who spend all day working at a desk before taking the leap to writing full time don’t anticipate the problems of keeping their weight in…
Blargle Splect: Writerly Musings & Blather 