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 [...]

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The Brave and the Bold

November 10, 2011
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So guess what I learned this week? 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. So what is The Sundered? It’s about a young, bitter man who [...]

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Holes in the Cheese

October 7, 2011
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Life. It is that. *points at picture* I will be more personal later, but for now, have some links. There Are No New Stories by Liana Brooks  “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret and disappointment.”  How to Write 300,000 Words in a Year, from [...]

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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: “He saw the door was  ruined with deep sigils, as if the desperate or dying had gone at it [...]

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