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Archive for December, 2008

Creating a Plan to Achieve Your Writing Goals for 2009

Two methods for creating a plan to achieve your writing goals in 2009.

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Coffee And Candy And Soda Pop Fizzes

Coffee and candy and soda pop fizzes theses are a few of my favorite things…
Since my post falls on Christmas, I’ve decided a little fluff is in order.  I know, what’s new?  This month is just going to be a little more like cotton candy than cotton balls and I promise to keep it short [...]

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

Yin – Yang of 2008

It’s already December 20th, Christmas is almost here and New Years is around the corner.  It has been a year of Yin and Yang.  The year started out in February and a visit to the Emergency Room.  After a cat scan they diagnosed Diverticulitis and Gall Stones.  They treated me for the Diverticulitis and they set up an [...]

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

My December blog

During the month of November we all blogged about participating in NaNoWriMo. Well, Nano is over and we all deserve pats on the back for finishing, coming close to finishing or participating unofficially and making our own word count goal. I learned a lot from finishing NaNo. I learned I can do [...]

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Nano is about more than just words

Since many of my writing mates wrote about Nano, I’m going to get in on the action, too. But from a different perspective. I’m going to write about the unexpected things I got from Nano. Hint: it wasn’t 50,000 words. Not this year.
                The first thing I got was the knowledge that I have [...]

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Critiques of my book

I receive the critique back for the first 50 pages of my book. There were some good ideas, and some that didn’t quite fit my book. Everyone has their own idea of how to write a story, and her’s were a little different than mine. As she said, use what fits and don’t use those [...]

Friday, December 5th, 2008