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Writing on my new #WIP starts today. With taking on more freelance projects, I’ve been doing a LOT less writing.  Funny…I have the time, all I need to do is cut back on dithering with emails, social networking, etc.  Same old, same old.  I’m going to install some wordcount tracking software on here next week […]

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I would like to talk about a topic very near and dear to my heart today:  burnout. There are days that I crave the blessed mindlessness of a dayjob.  Show up, be a robot, go home.  Evenings and weekends that I spend without panicking that I’ve wasted five minutes doing…nothing. To be able to say,

Grammar books:  there are tons of grammar books that point out commonly misused words, punctuation, trivia, etc., like Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Bill Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words, or The Transitive Vampire (complete with hysterical examples and Victorianish line drawings).  And Joseph M. Williams’s dreamy Style:  Toward Clarity and Grace…no, I’m going to cut myself off

I have to start writing more reader-oriented blogs.  I keep writing author/publisher focus blogs.  Writing blogs directly intended for readers?  Terrifying.  Why?  I don’t know.  But it’s down in my gut, the feeling that I can’t do this, it’s stupid, etc.  Fear of failure.  I hate it.  I’d rather talk about the writing process instead

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Kris and Dean have good articles up on priorities recently… Kris:  On Popcorn Kittens. Dean:  Priorities in this Brave New World. What is the #1 thing that an indie writer should do?  WRITE. What have I been putting last on my list for the last two weeks?  WRITING. I have a stack of publishing things

I should have written this earlier, but sometimes you don’t always know what you need to write before you write it… So-Called Objectivity Looking through what other editors look for when editing…I’m going to be leaving out a lot of things that a “real” editor would check for, like awkward dialogue, using too much backstory,

“Lewis Carroll does Inception. Lots of fun dreams-within-dreams stuff that’s full of more than enchantment than frightening suspense. And a must for cat lovers.” – Fiero Publishing/Terry Hayman. I think I’m going to use that first line as a blurb….