Although I already blogged about my initial introduction to Wordsmith Workshops and Retreat here, I believe I owe you all an update on the experience itself. 🙂 (Spoiler alert: It was AWESOME.) I’ve only been back in my real life for a little over a week now, but I am more inspired and energized by […]
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The #1 reason why I decided to pursue a writing career was because writing made me happy. Even when I was stuck re-plotting chapters or re-working entire character POVs, I was enjoying myself. I still had my eye on the prize of being published–because it has always been a lifelong dream of mine to see
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The first time I heard about Wordsmith Workshops was back in November, right around the halfway point of NaNoWriMo when writing feels like more of a struggle than it’s really worth. Part retreat and part workshop series, Wordsmith is a small writer gathering run by YA authors Beth Revis and Cristin Terrill. They offer workshops
For the first time since 2012, I have won Camp NaNoWriMo! My MS is nowhere near finished, and a chunk of the words that I wrote toward completing my monthly goal have already ended up in my Cut file, but who cares? A victory is still a victory. What helped me the most this month
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Amnesia Conspiracy, that is, which is the working title for my WIP. I’ve previously blogged here about how I changed my planning methods for the purposes of this MS, and I mentioned in that same post that the actual drafting process would be “more of an experiment than most.” And since I’ve been drafting Amnesia
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Because I’ve been knee deep in revisions since, oh, mid-April, by this point. And I’ve accumulated so many reminders that drafting and revision are completely different beasts that I felt it necessary to share them. 1. Revision takes time 2. Like, lots of time. 3. If you spend three or four days tidying up one
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Much as I hate to admit it, my progress has been slow this past week. I rewrote and restructured the first three chapters of Facing the Music in less than a week, but by chapter four I was stuck. Lately, I’ve been having a lot of trouble with not caving to the Inner Editor voice
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The way my life has been these past few weeks, I could either turn this into a revision-centered post or a life advice post. Also because of the way my life has been these past few weeks, I think I’m going to talk about both. I have this terrible habit of constantly biting off more
This is going to be a kind of short update, because I haven’t actually spent a lot of time working on my MS in the last week. Meeting my April goal had the strange effect of derailing my productivity, and I’ve been trying to get back on track ever since. In the past couple days,
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I heavily touted the YA Buccaneers Spring Writing Bootcamp last year, so it shouldn’t come as much surprise that I’m once again participating. Though this is technically the second boot camp check-in, it’s the first time I’ve posted a progress report since the challenge began. My goals for this year were very simple, and more
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