Welcoming "Everything I Never Said"

Hey everyone! While I was trying to ignore my classes being a diligent student, I also published a book of short stories and poetry back in March.  It's titled Everything I Never Said  (misleading, I know.  Definitely not everything I haven't said thus far in my life.  When will I publish Ev…

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I'm Back & A Great Resource For Writers: Indie Hoot

Hey everyone! (Credit: NBC "Chuck") Yeah, yeah, I know.  It's been since November (oops).  Grade point averages don't improve themselves, though, and my classes over the spring semester were insane.  Kind of like having quintuplets that are all very needy.  Anyway--you don't …

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Short Stories

Hey everyone! Since I'm currently taking a college course about short stories, I figured that I would write a quick post about how to write short stories.  In some aspects, they're much harder to write than novels because you have to write an entire, purposeful, event in under 10,000 words.…

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Writing A Novel: Conclusions

Hey everyone!  Long time no see!  As promised in the last post, " Body Building ", I have compiled a quick guide to writing a conclusion for your story; this is also the finale of the "Writing A Novel" blog-series.  Stay tuned for more posts, however!  Okay - let's get down to…

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Writing A Novel: Body Building

Hello everyone!  I'm back with the next installment of "Writing A Novel".  Writers are bodybuilders, you know that?  Yes, I suppose you could be extremely interested in the physical bodybuilding process and be a writer too, but I'm thinking about building the body of your novel.  …

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Writing A Novel: First Chapters

Hey everyone!  Wow, has it been a long time since I've posted!  Ugh.  Before I jump into the anatomy of a first chapter -- as promised in the last post for Writing A Novel: "Casting Call" -- I'll tell you why I have been absent.  1) My computer crashed.  The hard drive broke, and…

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Writing A Novel: Meet the Cast

Hey, all!  This is the next installment after  Plotting It Out .  Today, we're going to talk about how to figure out your characters and how many you  need in a book. So--how many characters do you need?  More than you may think! Take a look at some of the well-known books: Harry Potter, The Maz…

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