Upcoming blogfests: fights and FUN

Looking for a change of pace from all the swoony romantic blogfests? This one's for you: the fight scene blogfest takes place tomorrow, Feb. 1! Mireyah at Crimson Ink is our fabulous...

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Friday Fun: Off the top of my head

Thanks to Karen at Novels During Naptime, winner of my "name that allusion" contest, for giving me this lovely new award.Rules: Answer the following questions with single word...

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Where have all the adults gone?

What’s the deal with adults in books for teens? Seriously? Is there some rule I don’t know about that says the grownups need to disappear or your teen readers will? If there is,...

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Critique alphabet soup: watch and learn

In Monday's post, I mentioned that I'd spent the week working through crits with delta readers. Yeah, I probably did coin the term. I've begun to wonder if I'm something of a...

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A slowpoke confesses

"Our strength grows out of our weaknesses" --Ralph Waldo EmersonDuring unplug week, I at last got back into digging deep into the revision process, armed with a new set of crits...

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Unplug week

A number of us writer bloggers are participating in "unplug week" and taking a break from some of our social networking activities. For me, it has arrived at a perfect time. My...

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And now for something completely different...

I think I've got this work deadline licked, and I'm slowly emerging from a scholarly mumbo-jumbo haze. Wow, has it ever colored my most recent blog posts. You're all probably...

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Pitfalls of autobiographical writing, part 2

PerspectiveIn art, perspective drawing is a set of techniques that make a flat surface appear to be three dimensional. Everything in the drawing is anchored to a vanishing point...

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Pitfalls of autobiographical writing, part 1

As I've indicated before, I'm not prone to write autobiographical work, and not because my life has been boring. Far from it. Rather, I see certain difficulties in working directly...

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Ramblings of the IT Girl

The writer's meme has been circulating in the blogosphere for months now, so I knew it was only a matter of time till someone said "tag, you're IT!" That someone was Heather of...

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The agony of authenticity

I had lofty plans to blog about epiphanies for Epiphany, but I am just too brain-dead today. Preparing a piece for Nathan Bransford's YA diary contest entry about killed me. I...

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If there is anything lovely...

In the season of giving, I've been hoarding. Or shall I put a more positive spin on it and say I've been saving up for a bleak time, when everyone could use a spoonful of sugar?My...

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Upcoming fun

Tomorrow is the No Kissing Blogfest, hosted by Frankie of Frankie Writes. Swing on by her blog to sign up and to see the full list of participants. I'm pretty excited to be joining...

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