As Robert Evenhouse mentioned in a post during the challenge, life will get in the way of your word count goals and that happened to me yesterday, so as you may have noticed, I didn’t get a blog post up (or get my words written) after critique group. So, Thursday’s total word count was 1,194Continue reading “Novel Recommit Challenge Final Count”
Category Archives: Inspiration
Organized Writing: Tips to Keep Your Ideas at Your Fingertips
Over the course of writing my novel, I became disorganized. I have notes in so many different notebooks, computer programs, sheets of paper and anything handy to write on that I waste half a day looking for a name I wrote somewhere, or a thought I had months ago that finally fits. In the hopeContinue reading “Organized Writing: Tips to Keep Your Ideas at Your Fingertips”
The Novel Recommit Continues – Quick Update
I’m excited to say I wrote 1,038 words yesterday. So far so good. Happy Writing.
Tips and Tricks: Creating Revision Goals and Preparing For First Readers.
I apologize for my time away. I needed a break and an adventure to fill me up with new energy, so I could return to you with insight. I can finally see an endpoint to my revisions, at least an endpoint that will allow me to send a draft to my carefully chosen first readersContinue reading “Tips and Tricks: Creating Revision Goals and Preparing For First Readers.”
Creative Similes: The Essence of Your Unique Voice
Simile – a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared. Comparisons and associations are how we help others to see the world from our unique perspectives. Ralph Cornish, a fellow writer and friend, recently challenged our critique group to write a short piece consisting only of similes. To tackle the challenge,Continue reading “Creative Similes: The Essence of Your Unique Voice”
Experience Writing 