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Excuses Post Is Full of Excuses

The Sick Woman by Jan Havicksz Steen, photo by Dennis Jarvis

Wow, it’s spring. We’re only ten days away from April. And the Weather War deadline I had set for February 28 is waaaaaaay overdue. I do have some excuses legitimate reasons for being past deadline. I discovered a plot issue that required me to stop writing, outline the rest of the…

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Stephanie March 21, 2017 March 21, 2017A Writer's Life writing 0

6 Ways My Love For Nature Makes Me a Better Writer

I’m a nature nerd. I have been since I was old enough to listen to my Grampa Al when he pointed out animal tracks and different kinds of plants and trees on our walks together. Thanks to him, I got interested in bird-watching. Thanks to him, I’ll never forget that the…

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Stephanie May 31, 2016 May 27, 2016A Writer's Life, Nature writing 2

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

What I’ve Learned About Writing From My Cats

Here’s the blog post you knew was coming. The crazy cat lady is going to try to say writing is like being a crazy cat lady. But hear me out! Every project is different. Strider takes kitty Prozac because he pees in inappropriate places. It’s something that started after I brought in…

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Stephanie February 7, 2015 May 27, 2016A Writer's Life, My Writing Process cats, writing 1

Music and Writing

Over the past month, I’ve been revisiting a story I wrote several years ago. It has a nice premise, but the story itself was sort of a wreck. There was very little in the way of plot, and no conclusion at all. The characters and setting were both strong, and…

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Stephanie October 21, 2013 March 29, 2015Revising music, playlists, urban fantasy, writers block, writing 1

Writing an E-Book in 8 Hours

So last night I wrote, edited, formatted, created cover art for, and published an e-book. Well. Last night and this morning, actually. Wednesday at 8:03 p.m. I posted that my social media and email were going dark, because I had an 8-hour challenge to complete. Sometime in the next hour…

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Stephanie August 29, 2013 May 21, 2016My Writing Process Amethir, Arama, epic fantasy, self-publishing, setting: Amethir, Vistaren, writing 3

How does your garden grow?

It’s summer in Indiana, and along with a ridiculous storm season and a disgusting surge in tick population, that means the garden is at full tilt. Tonight I had peas and radishes from the garden, and in the next several weeks we’ll be getting carrots, green beans, tomatoes, and green…

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Stephanie June 6, 2013 May 27, 2016My Writing Process, Revising editing, Indiana, motivation, revising, writing 0

Restart and Reboot Yourself

Prompt: Take a line from a song that you love or connect with. Now forget the song, and turn that line into the title or inspiration for your post. The song in question is U2’s “Unknown Caller”–a song from their No Line On The Horizon album, which constantly amazes me…

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Stephanie January 15, 2013 May 27, 2016A Writer's Life, My Writing Process writing 2

Hijacked by Backstory

The novel revision has been on hold for a couple of weeks as I’ve been working on backstory for several of the characters. Not generic backstory like, “He had four brothers and two of them died and now he’s the heir” or “She grew up north of the mountains and…

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Stephanie November 15, 2012 May 21, 2016My Writing Process character development, epic fantasy, The Loyalty Factor, writing 0

Writing isn’t always lonely

When I’m struggling through the nitty-gritty grind of squeezing out word after word, trying to get things just right on the page, it’s really easy to forget there’s a world out there, let alone other people who understand what I’m going through. Then I see a post from someone like…

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Stephanie June 19, 2012 May 27, 2016A Writer's Life, My Writing Process writing 0
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