Category: Writing Problems
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Working on New Stuff: Weirdness
It’s weird to be working on something outside my comfort zone. Novels for adults=Fine. I can handle that. So far I’ve finished two first drafts. I could put in as many curse words, as much violence, as much sex as I wanted. But it’s so weird writing something geared toward a younger crowd (my guesstimation…
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Title In Question
Recently, one of my good writer friends has been having trouble coming up with a good title for her young adult novel. Recently, at a critique meeting, one of the critiquers said that she did not like the title of my book…that she would not pick it up off the shelf. Burn? you ask. Eh,…
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Place for the desk, take 2
This last week has been a trial, let me tell you. Yes, everything mechanical was breaking…car, toaster, you name it. Now my desk will be in a new corner in a new place. The house has become far too expensive and, of all things, we are having to move in with family. Yep, and right…