#AmNoveling First draft, Second draft, Odd man out. Print everything, Anything. Run the motor hot. With reckless abandon, Let papers fly. Until in the quiet of late-afternoon, Clips unbound, Every word and weakness Under scissors and pen, Attack.
Category Archives: Novel
In every season (& on every other page), we turn.
So, recently on janefriedman.com, Jessi Rita Hoffman wrote a guest post about “stammer” verbs, specific words to avoid when writing fiction: …they halt the flow of a scene. Just as stammering halts speech, stammer verbs halt the flow of a written sentence. The author uses these verbs as if stammering around while searching for the genuine words she’s …
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This is how you write on retreat.
A few weeks ago, I slipped away to a vacation home overlooking Lake Michigan for a self-made writing retreat. Almost three full days with a writing friend on one side and a knitting friend on the other, the fridge packed with snacks, and full view of the sunrise each morning meant No reason not to write, unless you …