Tag: fiction writing process
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Novel Basics Online
The online version of my Novel Basics class starts here and on Facebook tomorrow, March 27, 2020. Here’s an introduction. Novel Basics Online Class How to Brainstorm a Novel with 20 Index Cards I know you’re out there. I’ve met you in some way or another. Maybe you’re the less than confident young woman…
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The Art of Rewriting Fiction
Right now I’m working on a new short story called “The 9th Street Gang,” part of my calendar mystery series set in Kansas City starting in January 1899. Here’s the cover for the story that about twenty of my friends and kin helped me with. Now I’m revising the story itself. And it’s taking me…
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Better Busy Than Bored
WiP Report # 15 Hi, All! “Better busy than bored” has become my motto in life, maybe even more after retirement than before. Here’s what has kept me busy (and certainly not bored) lately. FATAL FEBRUARY The fourth draft of Fatal February, the second Calendar Mystery is done. (Way late. I’d planned–foolish me–on having it…
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Myself as a Work in Progress
WiP Report # 13 Boy, howdy, how time flies. When I recently checked my files, I discovered that it’s been a year and nine months since WiP Report # 12 in which I reflected on my decision to quit trying to go the traditional route of getting published with the help of an agent and…
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AUTHOR BLOG CHAIN
Author’s Blog Chain My friend Lisa Daly has tagged me to follow her in the author blog chain. I’m very excited about the publication of her first novel, Mystery, Ink: A Novel Way to Die. You can find more information about it on Lisa’s website: http://www.lisakaydaly.com. Here are my answers to four basic questions about…