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NaNoWriMo 2015 Winner

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I did it! I won NaNoWriMo 2015! Whew. It was a hard-fought struggle sometimes. At one point I accidentally deleted a scene that I’d planned to delete after November, but had already written. Those were 1500 or so words I had to replace with 1500 better words. But I battled through…

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Stephanie November 30, 2015 May 20, 2016NaNoWriMo by Year Being a Writer is Hard, plotting, The Weather War, word count 10

That 35k NaNoWriMo Despair

I’m at that point again. The point where I hate my current novel-in-progress. The point where I think almost all of my characters are vapid and the love story won’t sell itself and the plot is pointless and the world-building is too thin. The point where I think, Oh, lord,…

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Stephanie November 22, 2015 May 27, 2016My Writing Process, NaNoWriMo Being a Writer is Hard, NaNoWriMo, writers block, writing 2

Murdering my darlings and more

Last week I got fantastic feedback from a semi-new friend. We met via Twitter in December and discovered we had similar writing taste as well as a lot of other things in common. Then we met randomly in person when we discovered we had a connection through my job. So…

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Stephanie April 21, 2013 May 20, 2016Revising Being a Writer is Hard, epic fantasy, The Loyalty Factor, writers I like 2

On Temptation

Today’s a snow day. We got 5 inches overnight, and I cancelled my plans for today, because the county doesn’t bother plowing our roads, so I’ll be lucky to make it to my doctor appointment tomorrow, let alone get out today. I spent the morning on sorting through old files…

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Stephanie March 6, 2013 May 27, 2016A Writer's Life, Motivation Being a Writer is Hard, motivation, The Loyalty Factor, time management 0

Excuses post is full of excuses

Okay, time to guilt myself into writing more. I meant to write a bunch last night. Instead I got sucked into the first three chapters of Love Is an Orientation by Andrew Marin. Good writing, and an amazing and excellent mission. I’m having to fight to keep myself from picking…

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Stephanie April 6, 2012 May 27, 2016Motivation, My Writing Process Being a Writer is Hard, The Loyalty Factor 0

A question about world-building

I’m almost 20,000 words into my epic fantasy novel revision, and I’m finally beating my head against a subject I have long dreaded. Calendars. Seems like an innocent enough idea, until you think about how in epic fantasy novels, the world is usually not our own. Okay, Middle-Earth was our…

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Stephanie March 19, 2012 May 27, 2016Writing Fantasy Being a Writer is Hard, epic fantasy, The Loyalty Factor 0

Excuses, Excuses

I've been making a lot of those lately. "It's a three-day weekend, I don't want to work on the revision." "I have a migraine. I don't want to work on the revision." "I worked on plotting and world-building for a different project, I don't want to work on the revision too."…

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Stephanie September 12, 2011 May 27, 2016Motivation Being a Writer is Hard, goals, procrastination, productivity, productivity methods, time management 0

Revision is a battlefield

And lately some of the casualties have been a couple of scenes I always liked and a character who, honestly, sort of annoys me.  But fortunately I’ve discovered a few foxholes, like a couple of scenes with a new character I like more than I expected, or a way to rearrange the…

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Stephanie August 3, 2011 August 3, 2011Revising Being a Writer is Hard 0

Word goals and whining

In the interest of pure honesty, I have only managed 500 words once since making my new goals five days ago. Part of me feels like a failure and part of me has decided that I’m going on vacation in three days and bugger those goals. I find myself frustrated.…

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Stephanie March 30, 2010 May 27, 2016Motivation Being a Writer is Hard, goals, procrastination, productivity, productivity methods, time management 0

Every Cliche in the Book

Man, there’s nothing like spending an afternoon looking through stories you wrote ten years ago and reading the critiques from your creative writing classes (including the one where I got a C for the assignment and was told basically, “Way to write every cliche in the book, now scrap it…

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Stephanie September 23, 2005 May 28, 2016My Writing Process Being a Writer is Hard 0
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