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It’s rewrites and beer o’clock!

Posted on September 20, 2012 by

  ICYMI, Harper Voyager (the specfic branch of big-sixer Harper Collins) is throwing wide its submission doors for two weeks in October to unagented, unsolicited FULL manuscripts. HV publishes bigwigs like Richard Kadrey, Gregory Maguire, Kim Harrison, Clive Barker, Jack … Continue reading →

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Getting Back on the [redacted] Horse

Posted on September 4, 2012 by

I got a rejection letter two weeks ago. Yay! Whatever, I get a lot of them. It’s part of the querying process, where you bare your soul and months’ (or years’, or whatever) worth of brain-melting, fingertip-blistering, sleep-depriving, dark-bag-forming, friend-losing, … Continue reading →

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How I Learned to Write a Damn Book

Posted on July 23, 2012 by

A lot of you probably wonder why I fangirl so ridiculously hard on Jim Butcher all the time. A lot of you probably think that I have some kind of crazycatlady crush on the man–or maybe on Harry Dresden. You … Continue reading →

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A letter from Camp NaNoWriMo

Posted on June 22, 2012 by

I have been lax, constant readers, because this month I have been participating in Camp NaNoWriMo. For those of you unfamiliar, National Novel Writing Month (hosted by the Office of Letters and Light) is a program I feel very strongly … Continue reading →

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The Problem with Present Tense (in which I tacitly pimp Chuck Wendig’s BLACKBIRDS)

Posted on June 5, 2012 by

Let’s be clear: I do not encourage new writers to write in the present tense. It is, by and large, not for the faint of heart – and certainly not for the faint of grammar. Present tense works in one … Continue reading →

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The joy [and pain] of beta readers

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

I’m sitting here in a friend’s living room while she reads my manuscript. I’ve voluntarily subjected myself to this, of course, having given comment-making rights on the Google Doc to a half-dozen or more people, to suffer the slings and … Continue reading →

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It’s not me, it’s you.

Posted on January 14, 2012 by

I gave up on a manuscript a few days ago. I was 26,057 words in. This is better than it sounds. This year’s NaNo project turned out better than it had any right to. I wrote 80,000 words in 30 … Continue reading →

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On the end of NaNoWriMo… and then writing its sequel

Posted on December 7, 2011 by

So NaNoWriMo is over, and I’ve been decompressing by, ah, well… writing. I must be insane. I know, I get it. One of my friends told me tonight, “You know, November’s over. You can stop writing now.” I laughed at … Continue reading →

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It’s not pantsing, it’s organic storytelling

Posted on November 13, 2011 by

That sounds better, doesn’t it? Sounds a lot more like “go with the flow” and lot less like “make shit up as you go.” But let’s face it, pantsers, you’re doing both of those things. Sorry, plotters – so are … Continue reading →

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Who’s ready to panic? or, Don’t worry, it’s just NaNoWriMo

Posted on October 30, 2011 by

The countdown is On, people. Only two more days until National Novel Writing Month starts, in all its caffeine- and chocolate-fueled glory. Last year was my first year doing it, and I won. Hooray! But twelve months, three novels, two … Continue reading →

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