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The Five Stages of Critique: A Guide For Beta-Readers

November 4, 2016 by

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So the writer in your life asked you to read something and give them your opinion. It’s all going well until you mention something that didn’t quite work for you. There’s a faint frown. This is the writer entering the first stage of response to critique. The first stage is always defensive: Let me explain […]

Synopses Are to Me as a Bulldozer is to a Swan-Shaped Meringue

October 28, 2016 by

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Me: I am trying to write a full-length synopsis and it is terrible. So I am going to go to hockey and sulk. Well, maybe sulk and then hockey. Hockey should be fun. I can always sulk more after. Rick: No sulking during date night. Me: (sigh) Fine. Rick: I will hug you until you […]

It’s Possible This is What My Current Plot Outline Looks Like

September 9, 2014 by

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The Most Impossible Distance

July 29, 2014 by

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  I know this feel a little too well right now.  

I’m Not Saying Anything. But if I Was to Say Something, This is What I Would Say.

June 30, 2014 by

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There are two parts of this chart that are the same blue. I don’t know which is which. Or… maybe they are the same? WHAT IF THEY ARE THEY SAME? Can you get hangovers from writing query letters?  

This is Why Editing Your Own Work is Problematic

June 11, 2014 by

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Maybe I Can Write the Whole Thing in My Sleep…

May 29, 2014 by

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Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night and start writing I mix things up. I’ll confuse homonyms, I’ll drop words out of sentences, I’ll imagine that I know anything at all about mixing glue. I’ll get my characters the wrong way around. I don’t know why I do this. I actually […]

How to Write a Query Letter: Again, and Again, and Again

May 22, 2014 by

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I’m writing query letters again. Because it’s been pointed out to me that in order to sell this book I probably have to tell people about the book. Which is fair. This ought to be easy. I’ve already written a query letter template. Surely I just write a little personalisation sentence to tweak it for […]

Hands Up if This Feels Familiar

May 6, 2014 by

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I Told Him I Got a Plan and I’m Gonna Dominate

April 25, 2014 by

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This song isn’t in any of my writing playlists but it’s been aggressively stuck in my head for a couple of weeks now so I’m going to share it with you in the hopes that doing so will exorcise it. The video is… unabashedly trashy. I sort of want to say you shouldn’t watch it, […]

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