Preparing for NaNoWriMo: More Great Ways to Procrastinate

I’m still not getting anywhere new, really, with my notes.  Mostly what I’ve been doing is writing down blocks of questions that want answering, but the answers aren’t coming.  I’m not part of this world.  I don’t own this story, and I’m not intimate with these characters.
And because I am Pot, I was talking to [...]

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How Blogging Has Helped My Writing

It’s hard to start a blog.  For me, anyway.  It’s not just the idea of talking out loud and not even knowing who’s going to hear it.  It’s also that when you start a new blog, you don’t know that anyone ever will hear it– read it, rather, if you have to be all picky [...]

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What I Want in a Writer Blog

I’ve just spent some serious time perusing various author blogs looking for things I might like to read regularly.  In most cases I scanned not only the most recent post, but everything on the first page and sometimes the next one back, just to give it a fair shot.  And I found just one blog to [...]

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