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Continue reading →: Taking Steps Toward Indie
Becoming an indie author and a day in Portland, Maine.
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Continue reading →: Beta Revisions Complete & A Flash FictionCheck out the cozy flash fiction this week plus an update on the novella.
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Continue reading →: Beta Read Results
I so appreciate my beta readers. Fixing the details will make the novella so much stronger.
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Continue reading →: Rainy Day on Guam
This past month has been all about revising Strawberry Moon Mystery. Early beta reader response has been positive overall. I’m hoping with a few tweaks and changes, I’ll be able to make it available to readers by the end of September, latest.
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Continue reading →: Novella Completed & A Homemade Mayonnaise RecipeYes, I finished the first (second?) draft of Strawberry Moon: An Olivia Lively Novella. It’s the first draft of the novella-length story, but the second draft if you consider the original short, handwritten story to be the actual first draft. Gosh, it gets confusing but not sure it really matters,…
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Continue reading →: Wrote All Day
+2000 words So according to Novlr analytics, I wrote 4,536 words today. I also deleted 3,036. But some of those I MOVED, so my word count actually went up over 2000 words today to a total of 25,783. This scene I’ve been writing is the climax, so I’ve ended up…
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Continue reading →: Taming My Inbox Every Day (Almost)
One thing I’ve noticed about sitting down to my computer nearly every day. My inbox gets a regular pruning, and it’s feeling something like sanity. Yes, I’ve still subscribed to too many Substacks of late—there really is a lot of really good, thoughtful content out there—but if I’m diligent about…
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Continue reading →: BICHOK & Bridget Jones
What is that weird word up there? I’ll tell you! No, it’s not the name of a character from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It’s an acronym that means: Butt In Chair; Hands On Keys. After yesterday’s writing spring with Novlr, I realized getting to my desk early in the day…
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Continue reading →: Joining a Writing Sprint at 7 AM, Guam Time
Yes, I did. Novlr continues to help me in my writing tasks. Specifically, I decided to try out one of their Discord writing sprint session today at 7 AM Guam Time. Now, I’m not the most adept at using Discord, but this was fairly simple as they use some sort…
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