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November 6, 2008
- My first run at this and it's going fairly well. I figure that I need to write about 12,500 words per week. I started really writing Nov. 2 and now, day 5, I have almost 10,000 words. Not bad at all. Now, since this is basically writing straight through without editing, I'm not sure how great this is, but I suppose that's not the point right now. Powering on!
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October 29, 2008
- I've been vascillating for two months about joiningNaNoWriMo. It will be my first year. I am trying to wrap up my first novel but feel like I have hit a wall and need to let it sit a while. Maybe this will be the distraction I need. To begin, I'll gather my thoughts while I imagine placid surroundings. I'm excited.
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October 28, 2008
- Ivory,You warn about cheating, but how can anyone cheat if you draw randomly from the entries? Surely, you will have a six-year-old from an orphanage draw the winning name out of a tumbling cylinder on a stage in front of thousands.And accomplished authors can enter (by your own rules), even those with best-seller status. If you truly draw randomly, even Stephen King et al. would have no ...
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September 28, 2008
- Hi all, I have agreed to participate in a game of mutating tag with some author friends of mine. Check it out at: http://jetaylor75.blogspot.com/ Hope you enjoy the Q&A!
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September 7, 2008
- I should be writing my blog story, but its too late to press play on the universal story teller living in the back of my head.(http://peacefulmeans.blogspot.com)The great thing about working on a new piece is the pure creative act. There is almost no mind involved. I witness the story in my head and then I copy it down as quickly and furiously as possible. If I get behind or if I happen to be ...
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August 8, 2008
- How in the world did this get started? Well, if you can't beat 'em, etc.Feel free to add your favorite neologisms. metrophobia –fear of poetry spectocloacaphobia--the fear of one’s eyeglasses falling in the sewerneophobe--fear of noveltyphobophillia--one who is in the habit of tacking ever more phobias, like donkey tails, onto one’s own behinddrunke schoen--thanks for the brewskis
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August 6, 2008
- I'm treading on dangerous and controversial territory here. In this post, sacred cows are slaughtered, snowballs melt in hell, Ericka dons her flame-proof suit and bulletproof bra. Warning: in this post, ear worms proliferate. Back in the 1990's my oldest friend Tilly -- she's not old, but our friendship dates back to kindergarten -- and her friend Charley surveyed everybody they knew and asked ...
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July 26, 2008
- Okay, all you amazing fiction writers (yes, you). How are your chops? Can you write a complete short story in exactly 70 words? Can you include BODY PARTS? Can you include the word YELLOW? Can you get character and plot and backstory and conflict and resolution and all that fiction stuff in there?Writing exercises are like piano scales for musicians. They strengthen your fingers (metaphorically). ...
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July 19, 2008
- Comedian Will Durst (whose first book, The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing, has just hit the stands) co-hosted a first-ever Red Room Writers' Mixer last week at Tosca on Columbus in San Francisco, with his wife, Debbie, and Red Room CEO Ivory Madison, and if you missed it, you missed meeting some pretty nice people.I made the trek from Healdsburg (about 2 hours away), and met Ivory and ...
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July 4, 2008
- It's a Scavenger Hunt! Win a gift basket of four of my parenting/teen books, or just play for fun. Tantalize your brain and learn more about me than you ever wanted to know! All you need to do is cruise through my Red Room pages to find the answers to the following questions, and then send the answers to me. Details below.BASIC QUESTIONS (1 point each)1. What Chekovian monologue did Ericka use ...
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