Category: Fiction
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My Novel is Out. Yay!
After 28 years I completed and published my novel, From a Distance. Available on Amazon today! There’s a little story behind the cover. I decided to try Fiverr. Someone said you had to get an experienced person to do your cover so I found someone who had 4000+ reviews and…
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I’m Back – Why I’ve Started Working on My Novel Again and What I am Learning
After a long break, I’ve returned to the editing process of my novel, From a Distance. Some of my readers have been with me from early days and I am extremely grateful to you for your patience. As writers, we know this is a complex process that involves many different…
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My Happy Place as a Writer
For a long time I searched for my Happy Place as a writer and I didn’t find it. The reason I couldn’t find it was because I needed to create it. I needed to understand what this place is made up of. Most of all, I needed to identify the…
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Getting Past the Fear
Last night, at 4:00 a.m. I finally pressed ‘Send’ and submitted my first ten pages to the Oregon Christian Writes Manuscript Submission program. For $5.00 you can have an editor or agent look at your first ten pages when you attend the conference. They may or may not want to…
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What I learned from the NaNoWriMo process
The first two weeks of National November Write Month went better than expected. I managed to keep up with my target word count, more or less, or at least catch up. But then we ran into a bit of a crisis at work and my job had to take priority,…
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