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Writer's Life

To Kill or not to Kill (Characters, that is)

Today as I was reading over at Steven Pressfield’s wonderful blog, I came across this passage:

The last big pocket of resistance is a long sequence—seven or eight pages—where I originally killed off a major character. Only now I’ve decided to keep him alive till the climax. His death in the originally-bypassed sequence [...]

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Sex Scene Saturday

That is what we have deemed to be the topic of our next writers group meeting. Accompanying the topic will be wine, candles…fans?

The reason for this is that those of us with sex scenes (moi) have been very nervous about reading them. To the point of suggesting that someone else read it and [...]

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I Have Returned...

My poor blog… It has sat all alone and stale for some time now. I poured my energy, words and feelings into a 108k+ manuscript instead. But, as in re-arranging the furniture in your home (which I am a BIG advocate of!) a little sprucing up can make the old feel new again!

I [...]

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Thursday Thirteen- 13 Things I Discovered When I Started a Novel.

I have always wanted to write -and was writing years ago, then stopped. Due to a lot of little miracles, I’m back. I pulled out a story I had started years ago and am finishing it.

Here are 13 things I’ve discovered since then.

Don’t try  to write alone and w/o support [...]

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Who Gave Me Permission?

Each morning I start my day by reading a chapter from one of Natalie Goldberg’s books. Right now I am going through Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life

I have not posted much about my writing here; I’ve learned that living the writers life is, well, very bohemian. Not many get it and many [...]

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