Category: Writing
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My Writing Process: Editing….part 2
My Writing Process Series Howdy Freeholders! Welcome to the second part of my editing post, itself a part of my series of posts on my writing process. Last time, I went over how I started out editing and how that changed for me as I grew more confident and wrote more books, and where I…
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My Writing Process: Editing…part 1
My Writing Process Series Howdy freeholders! It’s time for another blog post in my series about how I write my writing process. Today I’m going to be discussing my editing process. So far, we’ve gone through my entire process from idea creation, to brainstorming, plotting, and writing the first draft. Some people might consider what…
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My Writing Process: The First Draft
My Writing Process Series Howdy Freeholders, Just a quick reminder before I launch into the blog post: you’ll want to get your copy of Disavowed soon! The $.99 price won’t last forever. In fact, it’s going to regular price $4.99 tomorrow (28 September 2024). Get the latest installment of the Wildfire Saga for the lowest…
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My Writing Process: Plotting
My Writing Process Series Howdy freeholders! It’s time for another edition of my blog posts series on my writing process. I am going to discuss how I plot my stories today so buckle up and get ready — this is where stories are born! Plotting vs Pantsing Discovery Writing For a long time now, writers…
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My Writing Process: Tools of the Trade
My Writing Process Series Howdy freeholders! It’s time for the first official installment of my series of blog posts on my writing process. Today were going to dive into the gear that I use for writing! Some people don’t even worry about this step and just jump right into brainstorming, but I have to represent…
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My Writing Process: Intro
Howdy freeholders! Today I’m going to give you an introduction to a series of blog posts I’ve been inspired to write about my entire writing process from start to finish. Some of you (yeah, I’m looking at you two sitting in the back) may remember that I did a Saturday Snippet on this topic some…
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Where do Titles Come From?
Heads up y’all: This is from my old blog (about 10 years ago) but it’s still relevent today, so I thought I’d share it with you, because back then, I think my dad was only one reading anything I wrote! Howdy Freeholders! I was asked by a reader: “How do you come up with the…
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When your muse has an attitude problem…
Howdy Freeholders, I thought this week I’d regale you with the answer to another question I get fairly often: “How do you come up with these wild story ideas?” I answered this sort of in another post, but I figured I’d give you some specific examples this time. I tell you what: it ain’t easy…
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First post on the new blog
Howdy Muchachos! So this is the latest post on the blog, but for those of you who didn’t know, I moved from Wix to WordPress, so it’s been a bit of an adjustment to get things rolling again. Recently, I was asked by a reader: “How do you come up with the titles for your books?”…
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Story Bibles
Howdy freeholders! This week I thought I’d write up a little bit about what Story Bibles are and how I use them. And if you’re a writer, I cannot express enough how much you should use them! Just as a note, I also recorded a Saturday Snippet on this topic. It was a short synopsis…
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