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Middles
Originally posted on Story Empire: Ciao, SEers. Last time I was here, I promised a discussion of beginnings, middles, and ends. We covered beginnings in the November 5 post. Today, it’s time to look at middles. While you have to remember to start your story strong, it’s important to remember that a novel is a…
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It’s That Time Again – Strategic Planning for Authors – by C.S. Lakin…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog: As the end of the year looms large, we writers should be thinking about strategic planning. I know—it sounds like work. Boring work. But, honestly, if you don’t plan your writing career, you won’t achieve as much as you hope. Any savvy business owner or entrepreneur…
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WWW Wednesday: What Am I Reading? #amreading
Originally posted on Books and Such: WWW Wednesday is a meme from Sam at Taking On A World Of Words The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? I’m currently reading Analiese Rising by Brenda Drake. This is my first book by…
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14 Reasons to Just Submit It Anyway
Originally posted on Meg Dowell Writes: 1. If you think you’re ready to submit, it means you’ve (hopefully) come a long way from your very first draft. 2. You can reward yourself for taking a big step by eating cake. CAKE! 3. While you’re anxiously waiting for a response, you can also ease your anxieties…
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What it is really like to be a widowed parent
Originally posted on Running Forward…My Way: Being a widowed parent is definitely its’ own type of parenting. First there are all the difficult questions I have to answer. “Why is my Daddy in Heaven? “How come I don’t have a Daddy here?” “How come my friends have Daddies and I don’t?’ And then come the…
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Is it Better to Focus on Writing Only One Thing at a Time?
Originally posted on Meg Dowell Writes: From what I can tell, there are three types of writers: those who only work on one project at a time, those who can balance many projects at once and still do fine, and those who try to commit to three dozen writing projects simultaneously and pretty much end…
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It’s At Four Percent!
Originally posted on joeyfullystated: Privacy is important to us. I grew up with privacy and my husband grew up without any and we decided early on that privacy is a good thing and worth teaching as a family value. We are not a snooping family. We do not pry. We don’t believe in TMI, but…
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Ambushed by Stone…
The Silent Eye * Not content with capturing one rather large stone circle, under rapidly darkening skies, we set off in pursuit of another. Which was a mistake. For one thing, we got lost… * * And then we ran into this motley lot. Hiding from us they were. Waiting for the sun to go…
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Building on a Theme
Originally posted on Story Empire: Happy last day of November, SEers! We’re doing something a little different on Story Empire today. We’ve chosen one word to use as a theme and are sharing a few short sentences built around that word from one of our books. Our theme word is “Tree.” Pretty basic, right? But…
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Traci Ashbe Dark Epic Fantasy Author 