This is going to be a short post as I am in the final days of NANOWRIMO. In fact, I have been making such amazing headway in a small town series I am developing, that I forgot that I still had a post to write for this Saturday series. I know, I said Saturday, and this […]
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This is the third week of the National Write a Novel in a Month (NANOWRIMO) contest. The goal is to write 50,000 words in the month of November. That is an average of 1667 words per day. And…..I’m behind. At one point, this past weekend I was 10,000 words behind. But as of the start of
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Today I am continuing my Saturday theme on the writing life. This is the third in a series of posts about the writing tools in my work shed. I call the series Weapons in my Armoury. The first of the series was about the value of writing prompts, the second was about platform and branding,
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While attempting to come up with a title for my earlier post on Notetaking, I discovered a little-known fact. Our modern-day practice of notetaking and collecting those notes in books has historical origins. According to the Harvard University Library Open Collections Program: “In the most general sense, a commonplace book contains a collection of
I read a very interesting article recently, Why Digital Note-taking will Never Replace the Physical Journal. It caused me to reexamine my own note-taking practice. Until I was a student at The University of Victoria, I was always a long-hand note taker. While at university, some instructors were giving so much information very quickly that
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This is week two in a seven-week series on Weapons in my Armoury: writing tools in the pursuit of publication. I was supposed to post it yesterday but found myself out of the house most of the day, so here it is a day late. I wish I could blame the time change last night,
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It started when I was little, the push-back against bedtime. I didn’t want to miss out on anything. I didn’t understand why I was the only one going to bed. Mom was the one who remained firm in getting me to bed at a certain time. Daddy was a bit more flexible. I distinctly remember
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In a boot camp class for NANOWRIMO 2012, I first learned the power of a writing prompt. We started every session with a twenty-minute writing warm-up using a prompt the instructor wrote on the chalkboard. The very first prompt, on the very first class turned into the opening page of the novel I started that
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Welcome to my updated website. I started this website almost two years ago, and it was time for an upgrade/update. Technology like mathematics is a constant source of amazement to me. Like math, my understanding of the application and magic behind the screen is limited. Meaning, I have been on a huge learning curve for
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During a recent memoir writing course, I realized how writing has been a theme throughout my life. At every stage and decade of my life writing has been a creative activity I have participated in. In elementary school, I co-wrote a couple plays. My friends and I worked together to stage these stories. We did
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