Tag: people
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The (Early) IWSG First Post of 2018 and Obligatory New Year’s Post
Lose Weight! Get in Shape! Get out of Debt! Travel! Burn My Ex’s House Down! Write! Leran to Splel! Get My Math On! Publish! Ahhhh, the New Year. Full of possibility and hope. I haven’t really thought about it that way for a while. My time sense in the last few years has become narrowed…
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IWSG October
Have you ever slipped any of your personal information into your characters, either by accident or on purpose? What? You mean like hair color? Previous work experience? Conversations? Isn’t that what research is? Here’s a counter-question: How do you write a story with believable characters if you DON’T? An example: The character is described as…
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2017 School Year Resolution
*This s a long and perhaps self-pitying post. If you choose to skip it, I wouldn’t blame you.* Starting at around spring break, this summer has been 4 Iron Man competitions and an Olympic Pentathlon crammed into the course of a full marathon, run at a sprint while juggling live squid. Occasionally a clown chases…
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IWSG August – Pet Peeves
What are my pet peeves when reading/writing/editing? I may have mentioned my obsession with details in the past. Obsession almost to the point of freezing up. Obsession to the point of diving down rabbit holes filled with minutia. Posts written about this obsession to the point where you, my lovely readers, shriek with madness “WE…
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IWSG July
I’d almost forgotten this month’s post. I’m hoping September will bring some order to the chaos. *Snicker, snort.* What is one valuable lesson you’ve learned since you started writing? Uhhh…. The difference between “affect” and “effect”? On a more serious note, it’s hard for me to pick just one. I’ve learned a few lessons…
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IWSG Post
What is the werdest or coolest thing you’ve ever had to research for your writing? Hmmmm…. Well, I already know that I’m on a Watch List somewhere because of these: By the way, The How Dun It Book of Poisons is EXCELLENT. Definitely worth the investment to have this one in your writing library. Each…
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