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November Book Wrap-up

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The second half of November, once I finished some major work events, was great for reading. I finished 7 books in all, though among that I’m including one I edited (I’ll have read it about 4 times by the time I finish work on it this week). This was a diverse reading month, including more…
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October Book Wrap-up

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I have been working working working and so this post is late late late! Ack! October was a decent reading month with 5 books total. Two of them were shorter books but one was 771 pages long (and felt even longer) so I’m going to consider that a very good month. With one exception, this…
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September Book Wrap-up

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It’s time again (already?!?) for my monthly book wrap-up. After a disappointing August with only 2 books, I was ready to really bump it up in September. Oh yeah! And did I succeed? Um, I read 3 books last month. But let’s focus on the positive – all three were fabulous, classic books written by…
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Course Review – Character Development Intensive

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Over the years, I’ve taken multiple courses online from Gotham Writers at writingclasses.com. Most of their online courses are 6-10 weeks long and include weekly lessons to read and discuss with your classmates, exercises to complete on your own, homework with instructor feedback, and periodic peer reviews. While valuable, after taking four of them (Creative…
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What happened to August?

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AKA: The life of a freelancing editor I had grand plans to blog regularly in August, and then several things happened that sort of interfered. Most of them are actually word-related so they’re worthy of sharing here, though as you can see from last week’s post, not much of it was reading-related. Sadly, not much…
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August Book Wrap-up

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In July, I started a new feature where I share quick reviews of all the books I read during the month. And I recapped an impressive 8 books! I closed the post with: “Not a bad month – guess we’ll see what August brings!“ Spoiler alert: August did not bring 8 books… I’ll have another…
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July Book Wrap-Up

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I thought I’d try something new – a monthly wrap-up post including all of the books I’ve read during the month with a brief review of each. And imagine my surprise when I looked back and saw what a big month July turned out to be – 8 books! Yes, a couple of them were…
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Not Your Average Thesaurus

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Your plot can be amazing – full of twists and turns and brilliance – but if nobody cares about your characters, it doesn’t matter what happens to them. This is something I’ve been struggling with in my current WIP. My main male character is strongly defined but the female is not, for a number of…
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Developing a Writing Habit

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One of those fundamental questions for a lot of people when it comes to an activity they love is “When did you consider yourself to be a…?”. Whether it’s a runner, photographer, dancer, designer or baker, there’s usually some milestone they can point to that signals really being that thing they set out to be.…
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