writing life
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Wow. It’s been a super long time since I posted any kind of a writing update. People have been asking what I’ve been doing since graduate school besides coaching writers, and the truth is that starting my business has kind of occupied the front part of my brain for a long time. But I am…
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All right. Who just muttered “create a schedule”? That is exactly the kind of killjoy advice that drives people to Google in the first place. I mean if you could schedule it in, you would, right? You can’t. And that’s the problem. Making time to write is something I’ve wrestled with between working full-time and…
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One of the hardest things about writing–not just being a writer, but actively pursuing that goal to get your work published–is finding Time. The idea of “finding Time” is a common problem for creative people, particularly those with day jobs. You often hear it referred to as “Time Management,” “schedules,” something like that. I’m not…
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I did a little redecorating around the old blog and twitter account the other night. Still trying to decide if I’ll keep it, but I like it for now–at least until I sell and know for sure what my debut novel will be. I really wanted something that reflected my writing style as well as…
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I know I called this post “progress meter,” but I’m so tired right now that I don’t even want to take the time to upload the html, so let us imagine a widget, which I may or may not update later for real: I hit page 127 of the new ms. That’s almost halfway, I think. W00t! Not…