NaNo Prep – Act breaks
Slowing things down a bit to get the last major scene figured out.
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Writing
NaNo Prep – Midpoint
Hello again aspiring authors! Last time, we looked at the Beginning and End of our story. We knew how our character started and how the character ended up. Hopefully with some characterization and change along the way. Before we dive into the next part, I just wanted to take a minute and say that a
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The Screened Assistant Device
There’s a rush of screened assistants, but do you really want one?
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Coming this month
Thank you all that have already stopped by and shared the site up to this point. I never really intended for this site to be an Apple only focused site, but right now, that’s what’s bringing in the page views. I love writing about Apple, but I hope to fill in the cracks with
How I Write – Part 6
Part 6 of my how I write series. I talk briefly about editing.
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How I Write – Part 5 – Writing
As if all the other things I’ve done haven’t been daunting enough, this is the most daunting yet. Looking at a blank page can be scary. Hopefully, by this point in the writing process, I’m pretty excited in my story and I’m ready to go, but sometimes I might be overwhelmed by how I’m going
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How I write: Part 4 – Sweet Emotions
Before I start writing, I have one more step, and I think it’s the most important. I go through my scenes to figure out a couple of things in each: emotions and action.
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How I Write: Part 3 – The Structure
Here’s Part 3 of my series on how I write. I’m going to be talking about structure of the story here, and the tool that I usually use: Scrivener. If you are a writer that writes long form, I would highly recommend getting and getting used to Scrivener. However, everyone’s process is different, so you can read what I have and adapt as you need too.
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How I Write: Step 2 – The Characters
So this image has been turned over in my head. I’ve started to figure out some of the character aspects.
If there’s a character in my image, I need to know why (s)he is there. What brought that character here, what makes the character tick.
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How I Write: Step 1
I’ve been asked by friends and former students of mine about my process of writing. So this series will be going over the process I use. While I’m not a published author, I do aspire to be one. So here is my current writing process The idea Most of my writing starts with an idea or
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