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Photographic Writing Prompts for Paranoid Characters

Pictures to put you in the mood for writing scenes of paranoia and fear. ~~~     Time erodes our lives like fear erodes our confidence.     Please don’t turn, please don’t turn…     Lace curtains can’t disguise bad intentions, but they can distract from the voyeur watching you.     Is someone […]

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Writing Essentials Tag!

If you’re a writer and you have a blog or a YouTube channel, I tag you to do a post or a video and tell your fellow writers what you keep by you when you write. Share the link to your post in the comments here so we can connect and discover some new ideas. Then tag […]

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Picture Tour through a Victorian Weekend Getaway House!

I promised in my Characters’ Psychologies video that I’d show you the Victorian house I’m staying in, so here are some great inspirational highlights from it. Hope they inspire you too! Let’s start in the beautiful bedroom I’m sleeping in. Maroon walls, pink bed covers and pillows, and a chest with a story to tell. Ideal […]

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Writing Inspiration: Collection of Old Keys

As you may have seen in my Inspirational Objects video, I LOVE old keys. They are immensely inspirational to me. Not only does my NaNoWriMo novel take place in Victorian times, but keys are going to play a large part in the storyline. I promised to show my collection, so here is some of it: […]

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Vlogging NaNoWriMo on YouTube

Big announcement! I’m going to be vlogging my experience with NaNoWriMo on YouTube! Every day I’ll have a new video up – that’s 30 days of NaNo videos. Check out yesterday’s on anxiety and procrastination here: http://youtu.be/4mza5VLsJc4. Subscribe, like, comment – this is just another way to share my writing life and interact with other writers/readers! […]

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Book Title, Cover, and Synopsis Revealed

THE DAY HAS COME! NaNoWriMo has begun and I’m off to a satisfying start. I was nervous my novel writing skills would be too rusty to do as well as I hoped, but today is proving to me that I’ve still got it – I just have to dust it off. I think this novel […]

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T Minus 1 Day to NaNoWriMo 2014!

There’s only one day to go until NaNoWriMo kicks off, and I’m finding myself torn. Half of me is really excited and can’t wait to get started. The creative juices are definitely flowing! The other half actually feels nervous, something I never expected. I keep thinking I should have done more research before this point, […]

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Reblog: Celebrities Are Off Limits. Here's Why.

Proof Positive just put up a post about why authors shouldn’t include celebrity names, based on a recent lawsuit. Avoid a lawsuit of your own and find out what happened and how to dodge the same issue: http://www.proofpositivepro.com/writing-2/celebrities-are-off-limits-heres-why/

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Oxygen Defined Published by Ginosko Literary Journal

One of my short fiction pieces, “Oxygen Defined”, was published today by Ginosko Literary Journal! Check it out here, page 113: http://www.ginoskoliteraryjournal.com/images/ginosko13.pdf. There are lots of great works in this volume as well as past volumes, and I’m very excited to be among the authors published in this journal. Tell me about your experiences being published, […]

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Why Bel Canto is a Lesson in Good Writing

I recently read the novel Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. It’s not something I would normally read as the storyline parallels a real-life terrorist event, the 1996 Lima Crisis. The basis of this book, however, is not terrorism. There’s much more to it than that, which is what makes it such a good read. From a […]

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