Tag: national write a novel month
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National Write a Novel Month 2015
It’s National Write A Novel Month (here in the US, anyway). What does that mean to me? Well, I’m trying to write a novel anyway, but now I have a support group for the month to help keep me on track. What does that mean to you? Well, a lot of people are writing. …
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Free Space Opera / SF Novella
For a limited time, I’m giving away free copies of the first novella of my Renegades series. For the next five days, if you use the coupon code MG57A when you check out, you can get Renegades: Deserter’s Redemption for free from Smashwords (link). Mike doesn’t want to be anyone’s friend. He doesn’t want to…
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Writing habits and what I do in my off time
So, dear readers, the question arose in another setting as to what I do in my off time, and just how I recharge my mental capacitors in order to write more. This in turn, came up as a result of an offhand comment that I wrote 5800 words in four hours last weekend. It’s not…
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The conniving plotters
Plotting is an essential part of writing any story. There are a number of ways that people plot out their stories. The first one is what is sometimes called ‘discovery writing’ where the writer has, at most, a vague impression of where they want to end up and they just write wherever the story…