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The Most Interesting Thing: Clubbing for Inspiration
“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” - Jack LondonLately I've been feeling uninspired. I've been working on various projects, but because of "recent events that shall...
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The Most Interesting Thing: First Draft Garbage
"It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly." - C. J. CherryhFor all of you partaking of the insanity known as NaNoWriMo, I salute you. No one says you have to write 60,000...
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The Most Interesting Thing: Plugging into the Creative Outlet
“Find your creative outlet and plug into it. Otherwise, you may just short-circuit.” --Giuseppe BiancoHas your creative writing outlet ever short-circuited? Mine has. That's when I must plug into a...
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The Most Interesting Thing--SURPRISE!
Last Sunday night I thought a transformer exploded in our backyard. I rushed to the window and saw this:"But wait. It's not July," I mused. "What's going on?"An amazing surprise!I rushed to the radio...
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The Most Interesting Thing: Make 'em Laugh
"Do you think that all children's books ought to have funny bits in them?" Miss Honey asked."I do," Matilda said. "Children are not so serious as grown-ups and they love to laugh."--From Roald Dahl's...
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The Most Interesting Thing: Arizona Bound
Going HomeTomorrow I hit the road and head home to Flagstaff, Arizona. Twenty-two years ago I made this same journey at this same time of year. I fell in love with this mountain town and fellin love in...
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The Most Interesting Thing: Journal Therapy
"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."--Isaac Asimov Writers write. But sometimes life events make it hard to write. So what can a writer do? Journal. Think through the fingers. Many...
View ArticleThe Most Interesting Thing: Turning Worst Moments Into Money
"Writing is turning one's worst moments into money." - J. P. Donleavy$$$$$$$$$$$$$In case you haven't noticed, I've been through some pretty heavy trauma lately. I'm not going to air the details...
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The Most Important Thing: Destroying your Work
"Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it." - ColetteWe know the...
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Welcome to WIPMADNESS 2013 Week 1 Check-In
Welcome to the 2013 WIPMADNESS!Are we excited?I’m excited. Good things are happening amongst the Wipsters this year. Some of us have books coming out, some hope to have books coming out, and some of us...
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The Most Interesting Thing: Struggle=> Progress
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."--Frederick DouglassAre any of you struggling with a first draft? Struggling with revisions? Struggling to get an agent? Struggling to get a book...
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#WIPMADNESS 2013--Week 2 Check-In
WELCOME TO THIS WEEK'S #WIPMADNESS!The view from my favorite spot at my libraryHow'd things go this week? Despite a week of horrific turmoil, I was able to work on my WIP and I'm quite happy about...
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The Most Interesting Thing: Solitude
"I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude."Henry David ThoreauSolitudeSometimes scares meAlone and afraidSolitudeSometimes frees meAwake and aliveSolitudeA hideous curseSolitudeA...
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#WIPMADNESS Week 3--Check In--Perseverance
"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs."Victor Hugo San Francisco Peaks, Flagstaff, ArizonaDo your writing and publishing goals sometimes seem as lofty and hard to surmount as my beloved San Francisco...
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#WIPMADNESS Week 4 Check-In--Celebrate Yourself
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."Walt WhitmanSo here we are at the end of the month. How did you do? I accomplished many necessary things--mountains of paperwork and other unnerving stuff, but...
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Interview and Book Giveaway: Jeanne Ryan and NERVE
It is my pleasure to bring you this interview of Jeanne Ryan. Not only does this book have the coolest cover, but it's one of those stories I devoured without stopping. Leave a comment to enter to win...
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The Most Interesting Thing: Little Green Buddy Gets a Book Contract
"I've been trying to get published for five years and this obnoxious alien gets a book deal on his first try."Yes. It's true. Ace Hansen will have a book published before me. The beautiful people at...
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The Most Interesting Thing: WINNERS!
WINNERS!Okay, so you know you're all winners, but some of you are winners of prizes. Ace wanted to give all of you a bag of Alien Fresh Jerky, but his favorite place went out of business.The winner of...
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The Most Interesting Thing: Right in the Difficult
“Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.”― Rainer...
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The Most Interesting Thing: One Word or Two?
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do." - Thomas JeffersonPrecious
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