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Write-a-thon, Day 4: Train kept a-rollin’
Yesterday I promised you a guest blogger, mystery novelist Deborah Donnelly. Due to circumstances beyond our control, Ms. Donnelly will not eventuate. Not on Day 4, anyway. She says hi. New kids on the block I’m speaking now to the new readers I’ve just detected, thanks to the stats dished…
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Write-a-thon, Day 3: This is not my beautiful plot
I’ve written about typewriters before, particularly how you had to cut your manuscript with scissors and tape it back together if you had a big idea in the late innings and wanted to rearrange your plot. These days, of course, rearranging your writing is so simple and quick that you…
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Write-a-thon, Day 2: Deliver me from distraction
Writing is dark and lonely work, and no one has to do it. No one will even care much if it doesn’t get done at all, so that choosing to do it and to try to do it well is enough of an existential errand, enough of a first step,…
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Clarion West Write-a-thon, Day 1: Easy-breezy lemon-squeezy
I subscribed to The Writer when I was in high school. I remember reading about a writing couple, Borden Deal and Babs Deal. (They don’t make names like that anymore. Can’t get the stuff.) They always said to each other, “Well, I’ve hit 50 pages, looks like I’m writing a…
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Countdown to Clarion
Dear Loyal Readers: Thank you for your many compassionate comments after we lost our dog, Storm Small. They’re much appreciated. Though we plan to recruit a new dog soon, we will never replace our little man. He was the comeback kid and our most valuable player. But now I have…
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