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Been Sick But I'm Back Into It

January 14th 2008 04:16
I've been getting hugely back into my writing as I recover from my stress sickness. I'm getting seriously into it because I want to make a career out of this.

This is my life, this is my dream, this is my career. It is everything to me and it is my only passion-honestly, it's the only thing other than my spirituality that I care about.

Speaking of which, I think I should start a blog about that...

My mother's being a jerk on and off about the computer, but I WILL find a way to blog EVERY DAY. Promise.



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Not much to say

January 8th 2008 20:10
I wrote a couple poems, but they sucked pretty badly. So guess what? I've got nothing else to say, I'm just updating to update.
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Writing stuffses

January 6th 2008 22:39
So. My life is dull, boring, and nothing unusual. I mean, seriously, nothing unusual. Okay, that's utter crap, but hey.

I'm going through an incredible dry period when it comes to writing. Seriously. Even getting up the motivation to post here is an incredible amount of work. I don't have much else to do, though, so I figured I'd write up a post.

Just to have one in for the day. Yay. I miss the days when my writing was really productive. I think the months without computer and internet basically murdered my muse. She'll come back to life eventually, though, I hope.

If not... well, that would suck. Hardcore. I need to read some good books or something, that's what I need to do. Speaking of which, I'm reading It by Stephen King. It's a very good book, and it's helped bring my motivation up a very, very little bit. I don't know what's wrong. Eventually, I'll find my muse again.

Dry spells are perhaps the hardest part of being a writer. When writing is your life, to go through a dry spell is like to half-die. It's a type of suffering that I can't even begin to make it seem real, because the only way to understand, is to be a writer yourself.

Freewriting is perhaps one of the best cures for writer's block. I'm not very good at it though, for two reasons, one of which is the simple fact that I need to muster up the willpower to just sit there and write. Le sigh. Oh well.

There's not much to talk about, so I'll sign off, shall I? Theoretically there'll be a new post soon. Just keep watching
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Getting Into It

January 4th 2008 04:29
I'll freely admit that for the last month, in fact starting December first, I have been completely slacking off. I wasn't going to much school but now I'm just slacking off in all areas of my life and it's something I need to stop doing.

My goal is to write fifty thousand words every month. That isn't difficult, but it's not easy to maintain that. I'm pretty confident that I CAN do it, all I need is dedication. I've been letting things interfere that shouldn't be allowed to interfere with my writing-namely, my love life


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Let's start on these resolution things...

January 2nd 2008 05:37
So here's my plan. I'm going to spend the next few days doing market research. I'm going to write out a list of likely markets and listing those here. That way I'll be motivated to write and submit, and you guys will see some possible markets.

I'm going to restart this blog fully ASAP, it's just I need some time to get myself organized and to get myself with ideas. Eventually everything will be back in good shape around here, but it will take some time [ Click here to read more ]
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And so...

December 10th 2007 05:10
Yep. My titles are random.

I'm happy to say that the blogger over at


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...Mot...iv...at...ion?

December 7th 2007 04:01
As a writer, one of the hardest things to do is sit down to write EVERY DAY, working on what you hope to turn into a career someday. Finding the motivation to actually write can be a completely annoying and difficult thing to do. Running low on inspiration... well, that's easy.

NaNoWriMo gives people a friendly, competitive push which drives them to the finish line out of sheer determination. It allows people to get off their asses and write. This is the kind of thing I need; right now I need a good motivational push to get me off my ass and writing again


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One of the joys of NaNo: Daily Word Count Goals

December 4th 2007 06:20
NaNoWriMo has one thing about it that just happens to be advice from some of the best writers in my opinion-such as Stephen King. This one thing is that it makes you write, EVERY DAY, or suffer the consequences-a longer catch up day or a severe lack of winning.

This is advice given to writers by many, many, many serious writers. I can't help but echo it to some extent. I mean, as a drudge worker, you show up for work every day, do you not? Well, unless you're sick or on vacation. As a writer, you should love your job, and even when it feels like grunt work, be willing to stick with it. You should show up for work every day unless you're really sick or on vacation-but don't allow yourself any more vacation time (I'd say it should be more like half the vacation time) than a grunt worker would have


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Increasing Your Writing Productivity

November 29th 2007 17:14
So. We all have those times when we are absolute failures at productivity, and those times when we can write like a maniac. I'm going to take a look at causes, influences, and ways to increase your productivity in the next two or three posts.

First, in this post, let's look at the causes of unproductive times


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What would you guys think of...

August 30th 2007 01:50
An anthology of stories aimed at teenagers, written in historic periods-during the depression, the war of 1812 (which is outshone by the Napoleon wars but is cool because we burned down the white house), World War Two, that sort of thing-and aimed to make learning history more interesting, maybe even *fun*, while encouraging literacy.

I wanted to write something like that a while back. I'm thinking it would be a good thing to work on during the school year while I'm too busy to properly work on much in the way of novelling. My final edit of Moonshadow's Guardian will be done by October first and Jihad's next draft will be done by November first. After NaNoWriMo and National Novel Finishing month (more on that later), NaNoFiMo, I was thinking that starting in January I'd write one of these short stories and polish it up per month


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Why All Writers Must Be Readers

August 13th 2007 03:54
I am an avid reader. Fantasy, sci-fi, even a good mystery or suspense will make me happy.

There are a few damn good reasons to read, read widely, and read often. (Read something, even just a blog post, every day; write something, even just a blog post, every day


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A Closer Look: Theme

August 13th 2007 01:03
In light of Harry Potter's now-ages-ago release, people have been constantly talking about its theme, which is very clearly the Wizard version of the Holocaust.

You know, Death Eaters/Nazis, Mudbloods/Jews/Undesireables (I have a vague suspicion they were actually called something like the last one in one of the books), Voldemort/Hitler, you know, that whole thing. (Then there's Dumbledore, the reformed Nazi, and Grindelwald, the now-not-as-crazy-evil Nazi


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Short Stories: The Writing Process In Miniature

August 9th 2007 00:50
No matter what you might think, the differences between short story and novel writing are actually very few. The biggest difference is length.

Often times, a writer will use an outline for a longer work, but not for a shorter work. The writer will generally have an idea or concept for a shorter work versus a well laid out plan for a longer work


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Schedule

August 8th 2007 06:53
This is very loose, and it's Canadian time. Here ya go:

Daily-Editing Pains basic update


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