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The Halfway Mark of 2014: Are You Where You Want to Be?
Halfway There It’s the end of June. We are officially halfway through 2014. The question is, are you pleased with where you are as a writer this year? Are you working toward your goals? Are you making time to write? If so, keep going and planning out the rest…
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June Monthly Focus Reminder and New Planning Template
Where did May go? I looked up behind my computer where I hang my monthly focus paper, and it still says April. Oops. It’s not that I haven’t been working in May. I’ve actually had one of the busiest writing months ever, but it was so busy, I never…
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Ode to Scrivener
Writer friends often hear me talk about my love for Scrivener. In fact, on several Facebook writing groups, I profess my love for Scrivener often. Here’s the thing, I still haven’t mastered Scrivener, but I’m overwhelmed with the sheer possibilities that it offers. What do I use Scrivener for? Blog…
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Reminder: April Focus and 2nd Quarter Goals
Three months in 2014 are already gone. Tomorrow we start the second quarter of the year. For me as a writer, that means it’s time to start a new set of goals. It’s also time to set up my monthly focus for April. If you are doing this in…
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When Your Writer Self Gets Smacked with a Reality Stick
I love writing retreats. I’ve had the great opportunity to attend one particular retreat, organized by brilliant YA novelist Val Patterson, and led by multi-published Candice Ransom, for three years in a row. It feels indulgent to spend the weekend in a hotel room by myself and talk over…
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Short Snippets: How You Can Get Some Writing (or Revising) Done
If you’ve been following my blog for awhile, you know that I talk about making time to write a lot. I focus on writing every Monday. I’ve done whole series on things you can do in short amounts of time, instead of whining about how you don’t have any…
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Making Time to Write: A Writing Marathon
Over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to be posting on Writing Wednesdays about setting up a Writing Marathon for students. During the month of February, I did this at my school with fourth and fifth graders. The goal was to write for 30 minutes a day for…
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Backing Up Your Work
I recently did a guest post at Alayne Kay Christian’s blog on how to organize your submissions. A question came up in the comments about backing your work up. First of all, you need to have some method of backing up your work. I learned my lesson the hard…
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Focus on March
In 2014, I vowed to be more focused in my work. I wrote about quarterly goals and monthly focus. Now that the month of February is almost over, it’s time to start looking at March. I’ll admit, I overshot what I thought I could get done in February. But…
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Making Mornings Work: A Simple Tip
I’m more of a morning person. I was the kid who fell asleep before everyone else at sleepovers. In college, I never was able to pull an all-nighter. I like to sleep, and I have a hard time staying up late, or at least, I have a hard time…
