Just a wee bit more about “Do What You Love and You’ll Never Work a Day.” I mentioned this guy says that’s bad advice. I say, if you don’t want to do your favorite thing all the time because then it will be work and you won’t enjoy it as much…why do people get married? Ahem. […]
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So today is the first REAL day of my vacation, somehow in my head. Though I’ve been officially off work since Tuesday, there were appointments and I had to go back in to work (unofficially) both Wednesday and Friday, and on Thursday one of my administrators accidentally locked the keys belonging to the OTHER administrator
Doomy Summer of Editing DOOM, Volume ? Read More »
I got through! Head met wall and head won. I wrote the damn story. And I actually like it lots. Worked all freaking weekend on it, but it was worth it. Even if now I have to write my Spanish 202 research paper in one night. That night being tomorrow. *falls the hell over* (also
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Long ago I was an avowed pantser. I didn’t have a plan, didn’t want a plan, having a plan killed the story for me. Just dive in and go, that was the only way I could write. Through the course of a few book-length drafts, I discovered what so many had before me: that way
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There’s one big benefit to experience, actually. One main reason I tell beginning writers who ask (and some who don’t) to carry on to the end. Leaving out all the others (because they are there) here’s the biggie. Once you’ve done it, you know you can do it. There it is. The reason I almost
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I’m beating my head against another story. It just. does not. want to. GO. Part of the problem is that I didn’t have quite enough in the story to make me eager to write it. I mean, I started out wanting to, but then there was EFFORT, and there was RESEARCH (and not the fun
Lost in Translation: Momentum Read More »