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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: Risks
“You can’t get to the top of the mountain by keeping one foot on the ground.” —Rock climber and business professor, Jim Collins, as quoted in The Creative Spirit On my weekend writing retreat, I took a apart a novel that I’ve been working on. I love this…
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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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Writing Quote Wednesday: Pretending
“Writing is pretending on paper.” —George Ella Lyon, VSRA Conference, March 18, 2011 I discovered this tree ladder and rope swing while walking the greenway a few miles from my house. It was still. No children anywhere in sight. But if you listen closely, there’s a story there.…
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Writing Quote Wednesday: Sunlight
“There is so much talk of creative ‘breakthroughs’ that many of us expect our creativity to be dramatic. This is seldom the case. Very occasionally, we will have a flash of insight or intuition but more often we will experience a slow and steady course. Our creativity resembles sunlight…