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Jun

Traveling is an education

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I get ideas from all sorts of unexpected places, especially since I work with people from so many different backgrounds with varied histories and experiences, including many who were born in other parts of the world. I found myself in the middle of a wonderful conversation yesterday, listening to two foreign-born coworkers talking about the [...]

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22

Jun

Distance

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People have always told me that distancing yourself from your work now and then is the best thing a creator can do. When you take a step back, you have the freedom to move outside of your work and look at it afresh with a more discerning eye when you return to it. I tend [...]

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Tags: editing, inspiration, methods, quotes, schedule, writing

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5

Jun

When Characters Have a Mind of Their Own

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I was talking with another writer friend last night, and he was telling me how frustrating it is when characters develop and change as you write them, and they mess up all your nice plans for the story’s direction. There can be nothing more frustrating, trust me , yet I like to look at it [...]

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Tags: characters, inspiration, research, resources, writing

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2

Jun

Intricacies

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I’ve been blessed with a window of time to blog today! Yay!I haven’t been posting because things are pretty much progressing about the same. Still writing away when I have free time, mostly on the weekends, but I am finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel! I did this huge [...]

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