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MFA: Peer Review, First Crack
MFA: Peer Review, First Crack
So, this school thing is becoming real again. I have my financial aid letter (more loans, yay!), my Blackboard is working and has stuff on it, I’ve registered for classes, and my first assignment, my peer piece, is online. Now for the second part of that assignment: looking at the work of the other nine people and preparing myself to go in for a week and discuss everybody’s work. Let’s be honest…
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MFA Update: Preparing My First Peer Piece
MFA Update: Preparing My First Peer Piece
When I chose my MFA program (btw, got in everywhere all my paperwork made it in!), I had a matter of a few weeks to turn in my first writing. I had a few pieces I could polish up and submit, and in theory I could have waited for inspiration to hit (as it surely did) and start something totally fresh. But I’ve been kicking around a piece about a pedophile who raises the girls he kidnaps in a…
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The Other Writer's Nemesis: In Spite Of
The Other Writer’s Nemesis: In Spite Of
This might just be me. In fact, I’m entirely prepared for this to be a problem only I have. Who else says “in spite of” at least three times a chapter, right? I blame my fourth/fifth grade teacher. He was fabulous, taught me so many critical life skills and school skills. He encouraged my interests and taught me discretion over shock value. (Call me precocious) But he had us memorize a…
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MFA: Success!
I may have mentioned once or twice that I was applying for MFA programs. This was my second round of applications, the first directly after finishing my BA, to traditional full-time MFAs. I did this concurrently with my MAT (teaching) applications. Needless to say, apart from one waitlist at UI-Bloomington, the teaching applications were much more successful, so I did that first. I finished my…
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Writer's Nemesis: That
Writer’s Nemesis: That
I am a…verbose person. To my knowledge and memory, I always have been. It’s not just the way I write – it’s the way I speak, too. But sometimes, as well probably all know, verbose can become wordy. One of the first things I learned in college was that I could lose clarity in long, winding sentences, specifically with pronoun ambiguity. There it is: the dreaded “that,” sticking out in the sentence…
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Camp NaNo: April 2017
Camp NaNo: April 2017
Last November, I took advantage of NaNoWriMo to write the draft of Hold Me Now, which has been poked at by two of nine betas. I’m still sifting through my changes a la my most recent beta, and I think I’m going to take advantage of the upcoming Camp NaNo not to write another novel (which I could easily do), but to force myself to pick through the manuscript again, send it to my third beta, draft…
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Prewriting: How to Manage Your Fan Fiction Posting
Prewriting: How to Manage Your Fan Fiction Posting
As I may have mentioned several (hundred) times, I have many plates I’m juggling, with a fair amount on each of them. Today, we’re going to talk about one plate in particular: Fan Fiction. With two days of my week devoted to writing fan fiction, and regular weekly updates on multiple stories, I’ve had several people ask how on earth I manage to update so regularly on certain stories (while others…
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Shelving: 2017 Edition
I decided to take advantage of re-shelving my books to organize them in a more intuitive manner than just alphabetical by author, and non-fiction alphabetical by title. After all, a multi-tiered system well-formed now will save me time in the future, right? Probably. As with any undertaking, I did an internet search to see if someone had ideas or articles on ways to make my job easier. I looked…
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Goals for January: Writing by Checklist
Goals for January: Writing by Checklist
As I’m balancing many projects, I’ve got to do some prioritizing in order to be sure that I’m making inroads on various projects. I’m working on exploring new story-telling media, and I’ll keep you updated on how that’s going. Thus far, it’s going very, very slowly. Also, I’m prioritizing two of my novel projects: an alternate history and a crime novel (this because I’ve had an insight into the…
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Cleaning My Bookshelf
I have an important life philosophy, and it goes something like this: If my room is a mess, I clean and organize my bookshelf. In the process, my room will become clean and organized. How am I so certain this will work? Because a stack of books already removed from my room for sorting and dusting takes up about a quarter of the living room (much larger than my bedroom), and it’s MAYBE a third of…
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Dedication: A Three-Fold Word
Dedication: A Three-Fold Word
We all like words, us writers. It’d be pretty tough to practice our craft without at least an affinity for them. But some of us LOVE words. There are definitely words I try to use as often as possible: exsanguinate, mastication, things like that. I keep a list. But sometimes it’s the boring, everyday words we don’t give enough credit to. Like Dedication. Think about it: think of all the ways you…
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Writing Alternate History
In a new project I’ve taken on, working title The Time Tinker, I’ve been dabbling into some alternate history. This is something I’ve played with in the Fan Fiction realm, but never in real life. Why? Well, the history I’m most interested in isn’t what one might call ancient history. I’m particularly fascinated with people and events from the 60’s and 70’s, and forward from there. A historical…
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Eyes Bigger than Your Pen
Eyes Bigger than Your Pen
I have this problem, and I may have mentioned it before, but I always have had this habit of biting off more than I can chew. I have WAY too many projects in progress. I treat my writing as a second job (or rather, a first job, and my day job is second), and I happen to be sick right now, but I don’t take breaks unless my body is physically incapable of not taking a break. Likewise, when I get an…
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Closing Up Camp
Good news and bad news. Good: I’ve passed my Camp NaNo quota. Actually, I passed it early last week, but I kept chuggin’ along. Bad: I haven’t finished the novel yet. I’ve got two chapters and change to go, and I doubt I’ll finish it all today. So what shall I do? Well, I’m putting it on high priority while I sort through stuff, but I’ll submit what I’ve got for validation. I mean, I won, right?…
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Slow and Steady: Organizing Tools for Writers and Others
Slow and Steady: Organizing Tools for Writers and Others
Alright, I’ve definitely done blog posts on my pen-and-paper methods, but now it’s time to get serious and talk about one of my five biggest love-hate relationships. Technology. (Why Love-Hate? Maybe we’ll cover that next…) I’ve gone through TONS and I mean TONS of methods to keep myself organized using technology. I mean, it makes sense, right? We always have phones, computers, etc. with us. And…
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The Prodigal Camper
Remember ages ago now when I said that I was doing Camp NaNo to finish up a novel? Well, I didn’t lie. I just…put off adding on to that novel until this morning. So it’s three weeks in. Meh. I still only have to write about 2k a day to finish on time, and I did about 3k this morning, so that’s totally fine. I’ll be done before the end, for sure. How did that happen? Well, writers are people like…
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Writing a Wedding: Research
Writing a Wedding: Research
I firmly believe that every writer has something they avoid. Maybe it’s heavy action scenes, sex scenes, or an on-stage death (as it were). Every kind of event or scene has its own nuances, dictated by the end goal. A great writer can take those nuances and the other elements of a scene (like the characters, places, setting, plot points they’ve created) and meld them together to create and…
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