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Road Trip Wednesday
This Week's Topic:
What themes, settings, motifs, scenes, or other elements do you find recurring in your work?
1. The Problem Child
2. Weird Names That I Would Totally Give My Children Even Though The Other Parents Would Raise An Eyebrow
3. The Scary Manipulative Dude Who Seduces You Despite Your Better Judgment
4. Abandoned Places That May or May ( Read more... ) -
An In-Depth Analysis of My Writing Process
Step 1: Daydream all day at work, plotting backstory and conversations between characters and intense scenes of intensity ( Read more... ) -
Road Trip Wednesday: Pictures!
Share some images that inspire your WIP(s). We've done this topic before, but it's been quite a while, and pictures are always fun.
True that.
A random sampling of my Inspirational Pictures folder (yes, I actually have one of those):
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Road Trip Wednesday: Best Book of the Month
This is a tough one for me, because I've been gobbling up so many wonderful books since classes ended for the summer. And even though it might not be the *best* book I've read so far, there is one novel in particular that I can't seem to get out of my head.
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From: A Liberally-Conservative Feminist Christian Woman. To: Everyone
1. I don't hate you. Really. There may come a time when I will disagree with your opinions, politics, lifestyle, or choices...but that doesn't mean I hate you. I promise.
2. I don't judge you, either. I'm not a deity, so the job of passing judgment is outside of my jurisdiction.
3. I believe in God, and Jesus, and salvation and grace and hope and ( Read more... ) -
When it's all too much
So I've run into this problem with my manuscript. Usually when I write, I become blocked when I don't have enough information or I don't fully understand the themes or the characters. But right now, the opposite is true - I have too much of everything ( Read more... ) -
RTW: A world of my own...
This week's topic: If you could live within the universe of one book, which would you choose?
This one is almost too easy. The answer has been the same since I was ten years old.
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Narcissism vs. Networking
When it comes down to it, we're all narcissists to an extent. If you're reading this blog, you probably have a blog of your own. Which means you created a website so that you could talk about yourself. Which means that at least some part of you is an arrogant SOB ( Read more... )
