Category Archives: writing process

Writing Business, Part V

(Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV – all available for your reading pleasure. You’re welcome.)
And today? It’s all about completion. We must finish the things we start. Say it with me. Finish the things we start. Can I hear it again? Finish what we start.
This works on a few levels.
Please finish writing your...

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Writing Business, Part III

Part I, here, and Part II, here. Some of us have to read things in order. Some of us don’t care. But I am an equal-opportunity blogger, so I’ll give you the choice of just skipping right to the juicy part. Um, this is the juicy part. Right here.
CONFLICT.
Don’t we hate it? I do. Hate...

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Writing Business, Part II

Writing Business, Part I is over here.
Good morning, class. Today we discuss Choices. And Consequences.
(*cricket chirps in the silence*)
Okay, but really? Stick with me here, because this is where the What comes in. We established in the last post that I think the most important part of a story is the Character. If you disagree,...

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It’s Writing Business (Part I)

Once upon a time about six weeks ago, I taught a couple of days’ worth of classes to 7th and 8th graders, which I sort of already blogged about. It was a great deal of fun. I love honors students, remember that? So for the next few posts, I’m going to act like a Real...

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Messy Creation

I’m two days away from the half-way point of my WIP. Is that completely unclear? If When I continue to do my 1000 words a day, in only 2 more writing days I will be at 25,000 words. Big deal. It is. A big, big deal.
In fact, it makes me happy to meet a milestone....

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Goals? Commitments? I should be Committed.

Another great day in Mrs. Garloch’s classes. If I could teach JUST the honors students? Sign me up. So fun.
But I seem to have made a promise. Or a commitment. Or a goal.
Am I insane?
Probably.
I told these fantastic kids that they could do a galley project for me. That I would get my WIP as...

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Tap… Tap… Tap.

Oh, mercy.
This is going to take forever.
Do you know how there are some days when it all clicks? Whatever it is you’re doing, it just sort of happens? Those days are good, right? I have those days when I’m writing. Sometimes I can bust out a thousand words in an hour. One very memorable not-so-long-ago...

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News Flash: Boys and Girls are Different.

I know. This is breakthrough stuff. But it’s on my mind, so now it’s on your screen.
Once upon a time, maybe ten years ago, I read a book. This is not news. But the book was nonfiction (rare), and about sports (exceedingly rare). It’s called “The Power of Nice” by a sports agent/lawyer called Ron...

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