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The New Year is an excellent time to press ‘refresh’, and to take stock of what you have already accomplished, and what you still wish to accomplish. While setting goals, ad intentions for an entire year can feel overwhelming, here are three tips to help you set effective writing goals for the year: #1. Reflect [...]

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I’ve written before about my extreme love of journaling in detail here, but until this past year I wasn’t keeping a writing specific journal (other than one in which I could scribble down ideas I had, or passages of dialogue that came to me while I was out and about.) In the last year, I’ve [...]

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For the better part of my life as a reader, I have loved reading fiction, and only fiction. Specifically, I am a science-fiction and fantasy sort of gal. In fact, other than academic reading while at university, I have only really started reading non-fiction in the last year or so. And I have been delighted [...]

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‘Everything old is new again’ – at least in the world of writing. Originality can be hard to come by, and frankly, most of the stories we love best are iterations of the same formula. This doesn’t make us love these kinds of stories any less; it just makes the old storytelling ideas all the [...]

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A ‘writing tic’ is something that you regularly include in your writing, and often use to excess. It can be a partial phrase, or even a particular word used repetitively. We all do this, and often careful editing can catch these ‘writing tics’, but sometimes we can’t see the forest for the trees, and these [...]

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I try to write a blog post at least once a week. Some weeks are better than others, but over the last five years of blogging, I have amassed several hundred blog posts. I know some writers do much better than this, but I know a once-a-week blog post is something I can manage, without [...]

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I’ve written quite a bit about making your writing time work for you. Posts like this, this, this, and this all illustrate the variety of ways in which you can carve more time for writing out of your day. But not all time is created equal, and in our increasingly distracted lives, sometimes creating better writing [...]

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Hello, friends! I am so excited to announce that the Elden Forest Series is now available in print! Although I published the first novel, Magician’s Mayhem, in 2012, for a variety of reasons I elected not to release print editions. But now, after some changes Amazon has made to their CreateSpace Print on Demand program, [...]

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I’ve written about my need to ‘stew‘ in my story in greater detail here. I know this isn’t the most effective process for everyone, but for me, sometimes getting away from the actual process of writing can help me to develop my story much more quickly, and effectively. Here are three tips to get away [...]

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I know it’s not a popular opinion, but I find autumn to be the most productive time of the year for my writing. I’ve written more about how I write with the seasons here, but autumn is the best time of the year for me to refresh everything. Here are a few tips to help [...]