Category: Writing
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The Quick and Dirty
So where have I been and where’s that book I promised you – a year ago? Truth of the matter is, my dear dedicated reader, that it’s been a long nasty road that I’m not done traveling yet and I can confirm has been seeded liberally with landmines. The gist of it? I picked up…
Y. K. Greene
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“Writers Write” Is That Really Too Much To Ask?
I’m in the middle of NaNoWriMo and polishing off a novel I’ve been struggling with for about two years now but something was making the rounds of my independent author feeds the other day that rubbed me such a wrong way I stopped what I was doing and took a minute to reply that turned…
Y. K. Greene
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How?
I’ve been getting a lot of questions that sum up simply as “how?” How do you write a whole novel? How do you write a series? How do you self publish? How do I book cover? Sales how!?! Simple questions often have a complex answer that seems discouraging but shouldn’t. I can, and have, outlined…
Y. K. Greene
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Look Ma! No Hands!
I’ve been having a few nagging pains in my three of the fingers on each hand. When that pain progressed to my thumb and wrist I started to worry and when I woke up one morning and realized the fingers on my wright hand were swollen like sausages – I realized it was time to…
Y. K. Greene
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Wow, That Was Fast!
And we’re back. A lot faster than I had originally expected too. Kind of makes my head spin all the stuff that’s gone down in the last few days to make this possible. I did so much more running around town than I’m used to, got so much more exercise and sunlight! And absolutely no…
Y. K. Greene
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A Vital Reminder
This last year has been a not so great time for me. I’ve spent a lot of time focusing on family (often at the expense of my writing) while my family minimizes my written work and suggests with full candor that I would be better off doing literally anything else. I might be a stone…
Y. K. Greene
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“There’s No Such Thing As Magic”
Hamartia by Junedays on DeviantArt Here I am, deep into book three of the Eldritch Elysium series, “Tasting Ash,” and I’m already coming up against the great thorny caltrop I laid down to wreck myself in “Toxic Ash.” I knew damn well that in a story dotted with shape shifting boyfriends and their poisonously beautiful…
Y. K. Greene
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Scrivener Series: Export Draft
This is the sixth installment in my Scrivener Series, which showcases how I use Scrivener write entire novel series. Be sure to check out my writing process post for quick links to the currently published posts and a preview of what I’m going to cover next. In a perfect world (but unfortunately not the current…
Y. K. Greene
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So… I’m Still Here
My birthday has come, passed, and for the first time in five years it’s done so without the release of a new novel or even the paperback release of an old novel. The world didn’t collapse in a sea of angst and fire, in fact the day was quite nice. Warm and quite, with a…
Y. K. Greene
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Scrivener Series: Re-outline, Reorder, Rewrite
This is the fifth installment in my Scrivener Series, which showcases how I use Scrivener write entire novel series. Be sure to check out my writing process post for quick links to the currently published posts and a preview of what I’m going to cover next. By now I’ve been writing up a storm in…
Y. K. Greene
Blargle Splect: Writerly Musings & Blather 