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Writing Woes

Clarified

"You may not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page." - Jodi Picoult

It's been awhile but I thought with my next book coming up to be released, it might be time to start posting some more one shot writing pieces to my blog. Her

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Mirror of Erised

"The secret to becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing," - Ken MacLeod

January 13, 2023

The first post of the new year, and I have been sitting on this for awhile now.

Sometimes inspiration comes from other author's stories and worlds. One

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How Writing is like Pooping

"When you need to get it out, you need to get it out." - Rebecca Bates, RPN

Nov 21, 2022

In a discussion with my writing friends today, it was determined that writing is like pooping. How, do you ask? Let me tell you a good ole, knee-slapping story about this topic of conversation.

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Descriptive Writing

"Description beings in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's." - Stephen King

Nov 15, 2022

As a writer, I find description to be one of the hardest challenges. Not only that, but as a reader, I hate reading descriptive passages and often skip them.

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Long Overdue Update

"Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words." - Mark Twain

Nov 8, 2022

I haven't written anything since December of 2021 and to those of you who may have been following my writing, I must say I am sorry for not updating in almost a year! Sheesh! Li

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Collection of Shorts 1

The Betrayal: An Izzie Belanger Short

Dec 15, 2021

Sometimes, I like to take a character out of their story arc to see how they might have developed if things were different. In this case, I have taken Uncle Izzie out of Primrose to see what might have been had his fate been different.

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Behind the Manuscript: Lux Belanger

"We wanted to be married before the next round of drafts happened, in case Grant has to fight. Who knows when this war is going to end? I don't want to wait for our life to begin." - Lux Belanger, Primrose

Sept 20, 2021

Lux Belanger is the main character in …

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Character Creation

 

"It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and a pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does." - William Faulkner

July 29, 2021

I feel like the…

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Writing, but not Writing

"You fail only if you stop writing" - Ray Bradbury

June 10, 2021

As the title suggests, I've been writing, but not writing. More specifically, I have no been writing what I should be writing (my book) and I have been farting around on other things like Harry Potter…

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More About Inspiration

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." - Jack London

May 9, 2021

More on inspiration. Some days you just wake up and the inspiration is there. the entire plot of your novel plays like a movie in your head. All you have to do is sit down and write.

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