Posts Tagged ‘consistent writing’
NaNoWriMo
Posted by: claireflaire on: October 29, 2010
While most folks are gearing up for Thanksgiving dinner, writers across the country are stretching their fingers in preparation for NaNoWriMo. Between Nov. 1 and 30, keyboards will be clicking as would-be authors work to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. According to their website, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) “is [...]
Waiting for the Muse: Staying Motivated to Write
Posted by: claireflaire on: October 19, 2010
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I can come up with lots of reasons to not work on my fiction. There are deadlines for articles, baskets of laundry waiting, roasts that need defrosting. The hardest thing is to keep my butt in the chair, putting words on the page, delving into my characters and showing—not telling. I realize this is part [...]
Knowing when to speak and when to listen
Posted by: Kirsten Imani Kasai on: August 14, 2010
The world is urging me to get down and wallow in its mess. World, you are not the boss of me! Have you forgotten who I am? I am she who dreams of sleeping on warm grass, the one who would like to live inside a little mole hole in the earth. The one who [...]
A novel goes into production
Posted by: Kirsten Imani Kasai on: July 30, 2010
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At long last! I received word last week that my novel Tattoo, the sequel to Ice Song, is going into production. What exactly does that mean? For those of you who aren’t familiar with the process, I’ll outline it here. Once a manuscript has completed initial editorial processes (revisions made in response to the editorial [...]
Year-end Writing Blues
Posted by: pageadaywriters on: December 24, 2009
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I found this year’s writing goals when I cleaned out my office, a.k.a. the formal dining room, to get ready for holiday visitors. It’s not like I didn’t have the goals memorized. I even had measurable objectives listed to make sure I got from Point A to Point B to Point C, and so on. I [...]
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