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It’s Okay to Not Write Sometimes, or How I Spent the Last Two Weeks

It’s Okay to Not Write Sometimes, or How I Spent the Last Two Weeks

It is a fact that this author, upon completing a book, faced with the challenge of writing another book in short order, will stare into the abyss and say, “Not today, Satan.” There are always these moments of resistance, of post-marathon fatigue* where I really, truly do not want to write a book. (more…)

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Lessons learned when writing under strict time constraints, or NaNoWriMo!

Lessons learned when writing under strict time constraints, or NaNoWriMo!

I’m a writer who loves a constraint. It is much easier to write when given a limiting factor than to write “anything, anything at all!” This year, I need to write 50,000 words by the end of the month. Wait, you ask. Isn’t that NaNoWriMo? Why yes, yes, it is. My life is NaNoWriMo. How timely! I’m writing the second draft of my next Idyll mystery. I need 50,000 words because the first draft had a…

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An Interview with Stephanie Gayle, Author of Idyll Fears

An Interview with Stephanie Gayle, Author of Idyll Fears

Stephanie Gayle is the author of the Thomas Lynch mystery series, which includes Idyll Threats and Idyll Fears, out today. Her first novel, My Summer of Southern Discomfort, was one of Redbook magazine’s Top Ten Summer Reads, and her short fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Kenyon Review Online, The Potomac Review, Punchnel’s, and several other publications. She has been twice nominated for…

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What to Do When Words Fail You

What to Do When Words Fail You

I have twenty minutes to write, about anything, anything at all, and therein lies the problem, the problem of too much choice. I like limits. I adore constraints. Now I’ve got 19 minutes and eight seconds. Shit. I suppose I could just type all the curse words I know, but then I suspect I’d have several minutes left on the clock and be left with an abject sense of failure. Because I pride myself…

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Asking For Blurbs

There are many things I love about writing: creating stories, building worlds, meeting other writers, and talking about craft. There are some things I don’t love: the pay, the moments where I cannot solve a problem I created, and writing novel summaries. And then there are the tasks I loathe. Number one? Asking for blurbs. (more…)

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