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Posted on 22 April, 2020
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I’m lazy. I don’t want to write more than I have to, and when I write, I’m hoping things will work out eventually… Not so! At least not when you are developing your backstory – everything that happened before the novel starts. In my… Continue Reading “I’m Terribly Lazy at Plotting”
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Posted on 14 April, 2020
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What is the story about? It was about something, now it’s something else… Why can’t there be an easy story to write? Why do I need to do a trial and error to nail down what the story is about? I can’t… I just… Continue Reading “Wasting time writing”
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Posted on 19 February, 2020
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The biggest problem with writing fantasy stories is that we have to present a whole new world organically without overwhelming readers with names and places. Tolkien has an interesting way of presenting his world which I don’t think many have tried to emulate since.… Continue Reading “LoTR and Info Dumps”
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Posted on 17 February, 2020
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Finding a style that works for you and for the readers is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. I dream of a future where I can write something smoothly, meaning my style is set, I know what I can… Continue Reading “Writing Simply is for Children?”
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Posted on 12 February, 2020
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There is no doubt that you have to write down everything that happens to a character, whether it’s in the past or the present, because you, the writer need to have a clear idea what lead the character from point A to point B.… Continue Reading “Show or Tell, Both.”
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Posted on 10 February, 2020
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I have so many ideas it’s crazy… I’m super excited when I have them but I feel like I cannot start on a new project before I finish the first. But exploration is what I love about writing… And I’m wondering if maybe I… Continue Reading “Let me Indulge!”
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Posted on 7 November, 2019
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Have you ever come across the notion that writing in first person is bad? Of course, people can like whatever they want but I suspect they don’t like it because they were told to. Somebody told them that adverbs are bad, that cliches are… Continue Reading “Stay True to Yourself”
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Posted on 27 August, 2019
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I’ve come to realise that working on a novel is hard, I know, right, shocker! Nevertheless, I had this illusion that I could make anything rather smoothly, thus, whenever things got too difficult I jumped to another project. The logic was that I would… Continue Reading “Writing a Novel is Hard…”
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Posted on 24 August, 2019
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For those that write on intuition, do you sometimes find it difficult to continue writing on certain parts? Like you hit a wall when before words flowed like water? I often wondered why that is. It’s not like I hit the dreaded middle point… Continue Reading “Let the Story Happen”
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Posted on 20 August, 2019
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I’m gonna be frank, I’m rather angry at myself… You know as a writer (or an artist) you get excited over a project? You work it in your head, for a little bit, then you write it down in a first draft, all easy,… Continue Reading “About Stories and Doubt”
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