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In Praise of My Critique Group (and Critique Grouping in General)
Good golly the holidays are so crazy. For me, at least, it becomes a mashup of recitals and potlucks, cookie baking, phone calls and a thousand other duties I’m somewhat mediocre at. The result of all...
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Writing is Hard
Genius, right? Add that to “marriage is hard” and “work is hard.” But really. Writing is hard. And when I have spent a day like this, fumbling over sixteen words here or there, I read this, by Steve...
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Begin the begin…Starting a Novel
Some sort of planetary force is aligning right now and no less than four separate people in the last week have suggested I try to write a novel. Perhaps I’m reading into it and “you should write a...
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Chapter 1!
Ok. So it’s not the greatest first 3,000 words, but they’re mine, all mine. I posted here: http://devpetty.com/2013/01/29/begun/ about beginning a novel, inspired mostly by the ongoing serial I was...
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Life in One Thousand Word Bursts
I’m delighted to report that I’ve been lean on the blogging because I’ve finally been rich on the writing. I was worried for a little while there that I’d lost my writing mojo. But once the sun came...
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That Lingering Idea That Just Won’t Die = 0, Dev=1
Take that idea that’s been knocking around in my head for three years and have written twelve versions of including three chapters of a novel but they all sucked and it just wouldn’t go away and it was...
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Mojo
I seem to have my writing mojo back! The block or “life-fog” or “age blob” which made me feel as creative as…as…well, as someone who couldn’t come up with a funny thing to write there (and still...
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Zentangling aside….
I have been managing to get a lot of writing done. Was just about to send a bunch of stuff off to my agent when I had a new story idea. Crap! Stupid ideas. I had to get it down and see it through and I...
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I Got a Book Deal! A Play in Three Acts
Act I Dev: I want to write picture books. Chris (husband): Great! Will that make you happy? Many people I know: Have you ever thought of selling knockoff American Girl junk on Ebay? There’s a dearth of...
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Judging a Book by Its Cover
I’ve been thinking a lot about book covers and how important they are for picture books lately, especially as my publisher searches for the right illustrator for my own story. I was thinking about...
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