Category: Writing Fiction
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Insider stuff from my How to Write a Novel students
Monday I asked my existing students the following question: What is the best thing about my How to Write a Novel class? I explained that I would be using their words along with their names or forum IDs to tell people not yet in class what mattered most about it to them. I asked only…
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The Wishbone Conspiracy: A Fine Friday
Spiffy, spiffy day today, though kind of horrifying, too. I followed Cady’s situation to its logical conclusion, and she’s literally up to her neck in one of those moments I would have previously identifyed as “bad,” but which some of my readers have told me counts as horror. Well, folks who have read and liked Hunting…
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The Wishbone Conspiracy: I love it when a plan comes together
Because I have the last Early-Bird Launch for How to Write a Novel going live on Monday, April 1st, and because I had to do a bunch of work on that first thing in the morning so I could send out emails, I got a late start on fiction today. But the whole bullet-journal, check-things-off,…
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The Wishbone Conspiracy: 2204 words… AND a scene snippet
Today I’m just posting a snippet because it surprised me. I have this big, scary, rich guy in the story who’s powerful and dangerous… and here’s where Cady meets him: [DISCLAIMER: This is copyrighted first draft. It may contain bugs, which WILL change in revision, and for which I do not need any notice of typos…
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Marketing Tuesday: Finished with my survey results (and a game)
So, for as long as I’m doing Marketing Tuesdays, I’ve made myself a little image — with Scary Halloween Lettering, because for me at least, trying to wrap my head around marketing is scary. But I have the most amazing readers. I had a massive response to my three-question quiz. Thank you to every single…
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Free Writing Class: Find Your Fiction Mojo
This is one of those classes I built and then forgot I built. (Yes, there are more of them, and I’ll get them all back up and running over time.) But today I stubbed my toe on THIS one. Just click the cover below to go to the sign-up page for the class. This is…