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Lesson 1 from an English Teacher
Yep, school is definitely sucking up my time and energy. Also, the newness of having a blog is wearing off, so I’m not posting as often. Just thought [..]
Three lessons from my summer vacation
I haven’t been blogging for the past month and I know that’s horrible of me and so I apologize. I also apologize to those who have visited and [..]
Exchanging Pantsing for Planning
Or at least for once I am. Those of you who are confused obviously have never participated in NaNoWriMo. Go ahead and click on that link so I [..]
Report
The writing retreat was absolutely fantastic. First of all, it’s always nice to get out of the heat of an Arizona summer in the Phoenix Valley. Thankfully, it’s [..]
Learning Something New
One of the blogs I follow shared this great video about the process it takes to actually a publish a book. Now, this is not the “from first [..]
A Writing Vacation
And by that, I mean a vacation to actually get some writing done-or in my case, some rewriting-and not a vacation from writing. I take too many of [..]
My first post on writing advice.
Or, actually, critiquing advice. And it isn’t my advice, but something that I read that struck a chord with me so I wanted to share.
The first few steps…
Perhaps the hardest thing about starting a blog is writing and publishing that first post. What’s a blogger supposed to write about? What am I supposed to say? [..]