From the category archives:
It’s Day Ten of NaNoWriMo and I’m behind word count — by about half as many words as would be advisable at this point if one were hoping to make it to 50K by the end of November. Which um, one is. Making time for novel writing amidst all the other stuff I have going [...]
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So six of my last ten blog posts were, in fact, audios. I’ve found via my Creative Solopreneur Podcast that I have an insatiable love for audio interviews. I like asking the probing questions, ruffling the layers, plucking out the underpinnings, and I enjoy throwing in a bit of entertainment here and there, too. {This [...]
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Today is Day One of NaNoWriMo here in the U.S.! I made it to 2,090 words {2,000 words a day is my goal because my desired novel length is longer than 50K}. Here’s today’s #NaNoLove Tiny Audio. {Missed what these are? Check out yesterday’s post.} Right click here and select Save Link As to download [...]
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Today is Hallowe’en. And tonight is NaNoWriMo Eve. If you’re a fiction writer — even a dabbler — I hope you know what I mean. If you don’t, please check out the National Novel Writing Month website. For the past month I’ve been Tweeting daily with the #NaNoLove hashtag, which I co-created along with the [...]
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Well, I made something for us. Because I’ve heard it’s tough to get through 30 days and nights of literary abandon solo. Not familiar with NaNoWriMo? It’s short for National Writing Month. It’s an international non-profit that gathers 100,000-some aspiring and accomplished novelists yearly in a 50,000-word novel-writing challenge. With a time limit: 30 days, [...]
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A long time ago, in an undergraduate fiction writing workshop, a female student {surprisingly, not me} raised her hand and asked the instructor: “The stuff I write doesn’t feel like me. It’s like I look at my manuscript and say, who wrote that? I feel like I’m writing in…I don’t know…someone else’s voice.” This was [...]
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Change. I love change. Here’s what I say about it on my This Is Me page. I like to think of change — even change forced upon us — as opportunities for reinvention and life optimization. I wouldn’t say I’m addicted to change. But I do know that the prospect of it — no matter [...]
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Often when I’m talking about and almost always when I’m thinking about small, niche-y business — my small, niche-y business, your small, nice-y business — I’m thinking of them as enterprises. It’s a word that doesn’t get thrown around a whole lot in our culture, unless you’re renting a car or preparing to attend a [...]
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Here’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: Exhilaration. And what it means with regards to our entrepreneurial lives. Other words for exhilaration: liveliness, cheerfulness, gladness, elation. Delight, electrification, elevation, exaltation, mirth, quickening, vitalization, vivification. Wowzers. I don’t know about you, but I could use a daily dose of exhilaration. Seems like it’d be [...]
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Just returned from a one-week jaunt to South Carolina, where I sunned myself {and burned, despite slathering myself with organic, paraben-free SPF 30 sunscreen}, read a lot, ate too much yummy food, and enjoyed a digital sabbatical. I live in Ohio, so anywhere coastal feels extremely romantic and getaway-ish to me. I read four novels [...]
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