Tag: writing
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Tweaking the Premise of My Book
For the last three weeks, I’ve been working on how to improve my Protagonist’s character arc. After talking to my editor, I went back into my WIP and tried to track her arc. I realized my MC remained fairly static. Ruh roh. So I decided to research characters that don’t change much or not at […]
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Prep for Talking to My Editor
Although I had to cancel my Zoom meeting with my editor yesterday because of a migraine, I’ve rescheduled for Tuesday of next week. In case you haven’t worked with an editor before (this will be my first time), I thought you might like to know what I’ve done to prepare for our call. Maybe others […]
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Me, Myself, and I
Have you noticed the preponderance of the word myself in our lexicon lately? If you haven’t, allow me to bring your attention to it so that you, too, can be as annoyed by it as I am. Maybe you won’t be quite as annoyed as I am since I am an English major, a former […]
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Eat the Frog: Revising My First Manuscript
Last December, I did something scary and expensive but necessary to advance my writing career. I sent my novel to Tim Storm, founder of Storm Writing School and an excellent editor, in Madison, Wisconsin. Why? I had finished my first novel, revised it as well as I could, but had reached the end of my […]
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2021, An Interesting Year (Part One)
Hey friends! It has been a long time since I last wrote to you, and I’ve missed writing and your comments! I will do better this year, I promise. With everything going on last year, I have not had the chance to process the year, which I usually do through writing. I hope you’ll indulge […]
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THE END Is Near
I’m near the end of my manuscript…again. Several years ago, I completed the original manuscript, work-shopped it at a conference, revised it with two other writers, and started the query process to find an agent. So this is the second time I’ve approached THE END, and I can’t tell you how ready I am to […]
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The Pitch
Last year I took some time off writing this blog to concentrate on finishing my novel. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve re-written the first few chapters, but I know I’ve done at least five revisions of the entire book. I’m preparing for what I hope will be the last. Do authors ever […]
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Nature Feeds the Muse
“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.” ― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There My life this week has been a reawakening, a slow revelation of moments of […]
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My Writer Birthday
Last Tuesday was my writer birthday. It was the first day of investing in myself in pursuit of a full-time writing life! Mind you, I’m still in the throes of post school year fatigue and would like to do little other than sleep, but my “sea legs” are coming back. I’m still not […]
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A Leap of Faith
Coco Chanel said, ” A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.” Well, I have a new ‘do, and, I’m about to take a leap of faith. I am leaving my teaching career to pursue writing full time. I’m scared to death I’m doing something stupid, but it won’t be the […]
Shannon H. Anderson 