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November 17, 2009
- Tuesday, November 17, 2009I grew up in Ohio, where the weather is as unpredictable as the number of cows you might see driving to work each day. One thing is guranteed, however: each winter it will snow. Down parkas will be worn and driving conditions will be challenging.Having lived in Texas for a while now, I have shed my winter skin, so to speak. My blood has thinned to the point that I find ...
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October 1, 2009
- Probably shouldn't be concerned about it. I was reading somewhere recently that Publishers like to see a minimum of Eighty thousand words.....is that really necessary? I believe I read it in one of those "how to write a query letter" sites. "Troubled Memories" is only about 73,000 words. The story is told and adding more to its length, as far as I'm concerned, would be ...
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September 18, 2009
- I've been working for ... uh ... I don't know how long ... on a novel. I have never written a novel before, it's mostly new to me. I've written many, many other articles for publication, however, having been a newspaper and magazine writer since the world was young, as Peter O'Toole recites in "My Favorite Year," which is one of my favorite movies. I was going through a rough patch of ...
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August 22, 2009
- You hear a lot of writers lament the changing marketplace. One very popular lament goes something like this:"I took too long to write my brilliant wizard/vampire/whatever book and now the market is FLOODED with books that are similar to mine and no one will ever want to BUY it! AIIEEE!!!!"I'm not going to talk about that.I bring it up because I too am getting nervous about the ...
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July 6, 2009
May 28, 2009
- I tend to be a fairly verbose writer. My husband actually calls me “The Queen of Verbosity.” Yes, I can write a lot in a short amount of time. I admit it.When I’m working on assignment, I often find that I have exceeded my 1, 500-word article requirement, for example, by at least double – if not triple the words. This may happen when I simply have researched so thoroughly that I have too ...
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May 1, 2009
- Peter Brett Writes 100,000-Word Novel on Cell Phone It's no wonder Brooklyn author Peter Brett's first novel is a dark, demonic fantasy - he wrote it on the F train.Brett, 36, tapped out most of "The Warded Man," which hit U.S. bookshelves last month, on his smartphone on daily trips from the Fort Hamilton Parkway stop near his Kensington home to his job in Times Square. "I ...
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December 8, 2008
- On November 30 I pasted my entire Nanowrimo document in the word cout widget and zowie, 52,393 words takes a long time to highlight,baby! That's 183 pages, or part 2 of my novel, and I finished by finishing, which means the reason I went over the word count it that I wanted to finish the story, not just the counting. I got really nervous and hyped up near the end, just like my body thought it ...
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November 30, 2008
- After being behind the ENTIRE month, I finished last night, almost 24 hours early. Final count - 50,224. This might have been both the most difficult and the easiest Nano I've done so far (this was number 4). Because of a huge amount of work in October, all of which I wanted to have out of the way and off the desk, symbolically and literally, November 1st, I was overwhelmed and undermotivated ...
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November 27, 2008
- Well, it's down to the home stretch - the last four days of Nanowrimo. I suppose I should have carbo loaded LAST night. If I do it today, combined with tryptophan, I'll be napping for Nano, not writing. So, I'm on the writing athlete's diet during the closing days of this marathon - coffee, water, energy bars . . . and whatever protein is lying round the kitchen, when necessary. It's ...
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