Category: Writing Fiction
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The Ohio Series: 2667 words, and SOFW Goals
Summer of Fiction Writing stuff first. I didn’t realize until this morning when I went it to check them that I’d forgotten to write down all steps of my clear goals. So the first thing I did this morning was that. They’re on the forum, but I’m reposting them here as well. My Summer of…
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The Ohio Series: Neighbors and Secrets
Keeping this short because I ran way long on the my fiction writing time today. We have other stuff going on, and I kept getting interrupted – and the other stuff had to take priority. But I finished up with 2040 words, and love what I got. Tori dealt with a friendly but kind of…
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Replay: The kid who asked me about being a writer, to whom I gave blunt, honest answers
I think this particular post needs to go into rotation somehow. A kid had a writing assignment from school, and while in general I will not answer “my teacher gave me homework, and I’m passing my homework on to you” requests, I did answer this one. I did not pull any punches. Did not glamorize…
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SOFW: Goalsetting in progress now
While the actual Summer of Fiction Writing event doesn’t start until June first at 10 AM ET, folks are heading in now to set their goals — goals that are designed to give each writer work achievable in the time that writer has, and with the built-in leverage to get the work done. These are…
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The Ohio Series: Surprises and weirdness.
Yesterday was chaos, site issues over on HollysWritingClasses.com, and constant interruption, so while I worked on the book, I didn’t hit my word goal. I did get 1391 words, which is still good. Today, though… Today was pure joy. I got 2542 words that just flew off my fingertips, and made me laugh as they…
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Dead Man’s Party: Wrote the SERIES ending…
DEAD MAN’S PARTY Last week I wrote a stand-alone ending for Dead Man’s Party. This week, because I had one week and one chapter left, I wrote a series ending, and showed how I built out pieces of story that do not exist in the first draft, but that, if I decide I want Dead Man’s…
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Overhauling the site
As you might have guessed (by the fact that everything is broken), I’m overhauling the site. I’m having a miserable, cussing, growling, horrible time of it. On the bright side, the site now loads fast. On the dark side — everyfuckingthing else is dark side. EVERYTHING. The blog is not on its page. The first few…
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The Ohio Series: 693 words, and What’s In The Basement?
While I did not get a lot of words today — we have a bit of nice chaos going on here at the moment — the ones I got were good. First, cookies rear their dangerous heads in my fiction again, this time cookies that apparently have just a hint of magic to them. Second,…
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The Ohio Series: 1408 words and a cliffhanger for me
Had a LOT of things going today, all of which were important, some of which were urgent, and all of which collided with my words. But I did get 1408, and I’m now on Chapter 4. And Tori got her bolt cutters, took the lock off the basement freezer, opened it, closed it again, and…
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The Summer of Fiction Writing EVENT at HollysWritingClasses.com
To help writers beat the summer doldrums, I’m going to be hosting a Summer of Fiction Writing event on HollysWritingClasses.com (HWC). During this three-month writing party, (June 1st – August 31st) folks in the free HCW writers’ community: Will focus on helping newer writers create smaller start-to-finish projects written in the months of June, July,…