writing

  • Celbrating the Autumnal Equinox by Finishing What You Started

    Hello Beautiful Blogosherians! I have some great news to report. You all may remember back in January, I conducted a personal experiment by challenging myself to write 8,000 words a day in ten days to write a first draft of my novel. I hit the wall on day six, and had about 50,000 words to […]

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  • Writing Matters: Writer Conference Recordings

    Today’s post is a blatant promo for a dear friend of mine. Many of you know that I have been a writers conference attendee/volunteer for many years. I spent about ten years at the Maui Writers Conference, and have been lucky enough to attend The San Francisco Writers Conference, and Thrillerfest for the last three […]

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  • Writing Matters: Hemmingway’s Iceberg Theory

    In this post, I want to look at how ideas about writing evolve and change from writer to writer. In his book, “Death in the Afternoon,” Ernest Hemingway spoke about what he called the “iceberg principle” or the “theory of omission,”he explains that:  “If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing […]

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