When I read this blog post at the end of last October about scheduling your writing time and word count goals in order to win NaNoWriMo, it was a total game changer for me. I’d been given similar advice about deadline setting before, but never so succinctly or with such clear, actionable steps. I’d been
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We made it to 2021! Although I don’t harbor any illusions about how much better and fairer and less stressful and less . . . plague-ridden the coming year will be, I’m still so, so ready to leave 2020 behind. I wrote in last year’s resolution’s post about how I was craving “stability and consistency,”
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Once again, I have to give credit to Jamie at The Perpetual Page Turner for my favorite yearly reading wrap-up. Let’s jump right in, shall we? 2020 Reading Stats Number Of Books You Read: 93Number of Re-Reads: 6Genre You Read The Most From: Contemporary YA 1. Best Book You Read In 2020? The best book that
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What a year, am I right? Frankly, I think I speak for every person alive when I say that I’ll be happy to close the door on 2020 once and for all. Between the pandemic and the election and the wave of racial justice/anti-police brutality protests, it was a struggle to find the energy or
Prior to the 2016 election, I didn’t bother to write a post like this. In fact, I don’t remember paying especially much attention to the campaigning or the debates, to what individual people were saying or what the polls were saying. This was partly because I was far less politically active then, and partly because
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Over the last few years, I’ve come to realize that my creativity has its own cycles. Or, as I prefer to think of them, seasons. When I was in the middle of planning my wedding, I found myself gravitating more toward shorter nonfiction writing because I didn’t have the time or mental energy to really
With every quarterly update I write, I find myself hoping that I won’t have to mention the COVID-19 pandemic by the time the next quarter rolls around, or that I’ll be able to focus on how much things have improved at the very least. Such is not the case this month, unfortunately, as the United
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The last post about my revision process is here! Once I finished the prolonged Planning Stage, it was all too easy to move on to the third and final Outlining Stage, which is why there’s a much shorter gap between this post and the last. 🙂 The Outlining Stage probably sounds pretty straightforward; most writers
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When I published the first of my posts detailing my revision process, I forewarned you all not to expect scheduled updates. It turns out I was right to, because the second stage of my process, the Planning Stage, took much longer than I’d originally anticipated. What does the Planning Stage involve, you may ask? If
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It has been a surreal three months, am I right? When I published my last quarterly update, the pandemic was just taking hold in the United States, I had just made the switch to working from home, and none of us knew how bad things would be or how long they would last. At the
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