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Making Time to Write Monday: A Virtual Research Trip
Last week I shared a few pictures from my research trip to Emerald Isle, NC. I spent several days there gathering a few details for my young adult novel. At the exact same time, my parents were visiting Bangkok, Thailand. They live in Thailand, but were visiting Bangkok for…
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Making Time to Write Monday: Research Trip
The protagonist in my young adult novel is from Emerald Isle, North Carolina though very little of the book actually takes place there. I’ve been working on this book for awhile (gulp, years). I’ve tried on a few occasions to make a research trip to Emerald Isle. I did a…
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Writing Quote Wednesday: Small Steps
“All creative work is made by many small steps. The steps themselves are rarely great leaps. It is the faith to begin that we must cultivate.” —Julia Cameron, Twitter, September 15, 2012 And so we begin another year–writing every day. Little by little making our way to…
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Making Time to Write Monday: Just Say No to New Year’s Resolutions (or 31 Just for Fun)
Alayne Kay Christian is in my online picture book critique group. She’s also the founder of the new group Sub Six. Sub Sixers are planning to submit six manuscripts sitting in folders. On Alayne’s blog, Writer’s Whole Life Perspective, she challenged her readers to not worry about New Year’s…
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Writing Quote Wednesday: Making Art
“Remember it is the making of the art, not the reception of your art that makes you an artist.” —Julia Cameron, p. 212 Finding Water This is my most recently completed work-in-progress. It’s a box full of drafts, notes, revision suggestions. It hasn’t found a home–yet. While I’m…
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Making Time to Write Monday: Pack a Bag
My husband calls me the “bag lady.” That’s because whenever we go anywhere, I ALWAYS take a bag. You never know when you might need something in it. Today we took a day trip to the closest IKEA store—three hours away. I packed a bag. But I don’t just…