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84,500 words. 1 Month. Done. Bam
Ten tips that helped me accomplish a full length first draft in a month. Read more
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How to keep writing? Skip the boring parts
I am writing the first draft and I want to keep going with it, if something is boring me enough stop writing than I am going to just move on to build up or an exciting parts. Read more
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The thing about editing
After much procrastination, I am finally back to my last round of edits and I’m pleased to discover it is not nearly as difficult as I anticipated. This is pretty much always the case when I actually get into editing, but every single time I’m looking at the task ahead of me, it seems overwhelming. Read more
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Working out of order
“Fate of a Princess” is out in the world, sorta. This weekend after numerous attempts to finish my second round of edits and clean up the end I sent it to my beta readers (my bffs) as is. I wouldn’t normally recommend this for several reasons. 1. When you do have it cleaned up, you’ll Read more
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Don’t take my back story!
I have a problem. I love to examine motivation. I love to determine just what happened in a persons life to bring them to where they are now. I’m pretty sure it drives my husband crazy and I missed my calling as a psychiatrist. This quality of mine is the most apparent, however, in my Read more
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Finished the book!
I just finished writing “The Silent Apocalypse”. Here’s the last line: “Liam did not mind. He supposed that they would meet again.” Chills, right? So I’m all ready to start submitting to every agent and publisher in the Eastern United States, right? (insert laughing gif here) Yeah. While I’m chomping at the bit to get Read more
LC W. Allingham 