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  • It Was Time for a Make Over

    Aloha friends, Welcome to our new website, isn’t it gorgeous! I am lucky enough to work with a wonderful web designer, Laird Sapir at  memphismckay.com. After she did such an amazing job with writerscoloringbook.com I asked her to help give “le blog” a make-over and this is the result. Not only does she have a […]

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  • 8,000 Words-a-Day Follow Up: Attack of the Doubt Malingerers

    First off, I had so many wonderful words of congratulations when I posted about chunking out 8,000 words a day. I figured it was time for a follow up. What do you do with the 50,000 mass-o-words? Well, I got out my big notebook and I drew out a plot sequence, a massive visual outline, […]

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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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