Tag: writing
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February Wrap Up, And Looking Ahead to March
I, like so many others it seems, it a really bad book slump this month! I blame Rainbow Rowell for this, as Fangirl was just too damn good. I did start a few, and I picked up a bit as the month came closer to an end and A Gathering of Shadows came out. (If you are…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Writing Soundtrack
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s pic seems to be a bit vague, a combination of book and music. Since I can read with almost anything on — I can block out noises and make it white noise (no seriously, I read on the subway with…
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Mid-Month Updates, ICYMI
I think I am having the best February ever, and now I shall knock on wood to keep from jinxing myself. Especially as I am driving tomorrow for the first time since I moved to Brooklyn. I am not reading much at all right now — Fangirl kind of ruined me for a little while. I…
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A Salinger Character Moment
Despite its thin walls and lack of air conditioner, I love my new apartment. I good portion of it is still in boxes (most of my bedroom and half my kitchen?) but I can sit in my living room and pretend that the rest of the place is unpacked. And getting rid of a car…
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NaNoWriMo Prep Update Number 2
Confession: I casted my book characters for the future movie of the book. Did I jinx myself? Probably. But I so don’t care. I absolutely love Scrivener. You can build character profiles and everything, without having to create a ton of different documents or a running word document that gets all jumbled. So below is…
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NaNoWriMo Prep: Ramblings of an Update
One of the items on my long bucket list is to finish a novel. I tried completing National Novel Writing Month a few years ago (six. six long years ago.), but I let finals prep always get in the way of finishing. I recently (by recently, I’m talking June-ish) pulled out that incomplete story and was impressed that I…
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Trying to understand boarding school…
….when you went to public school. I went to public school all the way through my undergrad, then did a brief and regrettable year in a private grad school (regrettable because the student loans? Oh boy.) While I do have some “experience,” which is all chalked up to five years on an intense online community,…
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