Month: January 2012

  • What Mark W. Travis Taught Me About Being Naive

    I got some wonderful responses from everyone about my 8,000 words a day experiment. But now I have a big problem. All I want to do is play with my new toy, this huge, unwieldy mass of creative stuff. There are characters I never heard of, I have to find out what the hell they […]

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  • 8,000 Words a Day… Failure or Success? You Make the Call

    This is the follow up on my new year’s challenge: to write 8,000 words a day for ten days. I was inspired to do this after reading Rachel Aaron’s post of how she upped her word count from 2,000 words a day to 10,000 words a day. I had been keeping track of my writing […]

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  • 8,000 Words a Day Baby — Going Big in 2012

    I took this picture of these three shelves of my bookcase. These are all my books on writing. From Roy Peter Clark’s “The Glamour of Grammar” to “Writing Fiction” by Janet Burroway, to “Anne Lamott’s “Bird by Bird.” I look at all those books, and the collective writing knowledge contained therein, and wish like heck […]

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