Learning to Fly

Why Do You Write?

January 26, 2012
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I write because of this man.

Recognize him? That would be J. R. R. Tolkien.

I still have this memorized:

“In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an ozzy smell. Nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat. It was a Hobbit hole, and that means comfort.”

I probably messed up some of the punctuation, but still. My geek card is intact.

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The Brave and the Bold

November 10, 2011
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So guess what I learned this week?

Go see her stuff! It's cool!

That I could attend and work at two comic book conventions (all for the lovely Celine Chapus of PurpleTopHat.com), write from 1700-4000 words a day, and realize my mind is already made up about The Sundered.

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Writing Full-Time – EEK ZOMG WTF BBQ

October 18, 2011
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So this week was an interesting one for me.

The web design business is going well, and I love my clients. But you see, something important is happening. My husband’s job is finally bringing in enough to pull us out of the black hole of foreclosure. All by itself. We actually have a little savings, and all our bills are paid. So that led to this conversation.

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Eureka!

September 15, 2011
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Okay, so I’ve just figured out this thing that’s probably VERY OBVIOUS to a lot of writers, but it wasn’t obvious to me.

I know how to make third-person perspective more personal. It’s the difference between:

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