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The 7 Faces of Doubt, Or How To Never Get Anything Done, Ever
That bat-faced little shit in the bottom right, he’s the Distraction Of The Internet. Doubt is the worst of all demons. You can keep those weird ones with the goat faces that haunted Sunday School...
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Skinny Dipping In The Fountain Of Weird: How To Get More Ideas
Sweet, sweet weaponized death. I get a lot of questions about the way I think. Not all of them the good kind, either; about half those queries are phrased “What’s wrong with you?” That’s because, if...
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Monday Challenge: I Like My Coffee Like I Like My Stories*
I love you, too, coffee. Back in the long ago, Krys and I used to spend boring moments—bus rides, waiting room visits, that sort of thing—discussing every possible preference of fictional characters....
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The Only Two Tools Writers Need
Time to get rid of that special software that promises to write your novel for you. Let’s talk about writing tools. There are eleventy billion products out there that will attempt to convince you that...
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Brains Riding Shotgun: Problem Solving With Other Writers
Ride together, dress as gnomes together. Sometimes, while motoring along the story highway in your mental equivalent of a post-apocalyptic pickup truck, you run up against roadblocks. Problems that...
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Monday Challenge: No One Rides For Free
You can get a lift, but it’ll cost you. Let’s talk about compromises. Your characters, if they do anything interesting at all*, will sooner or later have to make deals with other characters. And those...
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Sweat and Ink: Finding Your Passion In The Armpit Of Summer
Sun: IMMA BE HERE FOREVER. This is it: the dog days of summer. If you’re anywhere near me, you know that it’s been hotter than the devil’s jockstrap and twice as sweaty.* What’s the first thing to go...
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Inertia and Nipple Clamps: Getting Started On A Difficult Day
+2 Laptop of Punching Getting those first words of the day down on the page can be the worst. Thing. Ever. Writing my second thesis, it was a challenge to get going every single day.* To stop staring...
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Writers Don’t Want Your Damn Ideas
She is one thousand percent done with your shit. Every writer has had this experience: You meet someone, and they find out—maybe you tell them, maybe someone else already has—that you write. And they...
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Stealing Inspiration: What To Do When You Get Stuck
Yoink. In an ideal world, the words would always come when you needed them to. And every computer would double as an espresso maker.* In the world we have, though, you will, sooner or later, get stuck....
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Can And Will Be Used Against You: Real Life Research
The tractor sent flowers to the hospital for Al, which everyone agreed was very classy for a piece of heavy machinery. Whenever I’m around people and one of them tells the often-embarrassing tale of a...
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Where To Find Ideas When Your Brain Has Dried Up
Come on, the ideas are just waiting. Photo by Stephanie Snow The Coffee Shop: Sitting amongst the chatter of the normies might be just what you need to unstick your brain and get the ideas flowing. If...
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On Bad Days
Maybe this will soften the blow of the swears I’m about to drop. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer in possession of a good story will have days where that story turns on them,...
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Before The Storm
So, there were no posts last week because I was on the last blitzkreig-esque run that happens at the end of finishing a story. Those times are weird. My fitness tracker kept alerting me because I was...
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Idea Seeds: How It All Starts
HI I’M THE IDEA FAIRY. So, you’ll be doing something completely fucking mundane, like grocery shopping or showering or brushing your teeth. And while you’re zoning out and thinking of nothing but...
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