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Structure

Just like we need a bit of structure in our lives in order to thrive and stretch our selves to reach our goals, our writing needs a bit of structure to it. This helps keep the story coherent and...

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Building Character

This week my accountability group is blogging about how we flesh out/develop our characters. Last week’s post on our bookshelves and influential authors is also part of our How I Write series. In order...

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Research

The Circulating Library in Scarborough around 1818This week my accountability group is blogging about how we go about doing research for our books. Last week’s post on developing characters is also...

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Plotting via Spreadsheets – Don’t Be Trapped in the Box

Last week, we talked about How We’d Spend A Day With One of Our Characters, but this week’s entry in our How I Write series, takes a closer look at our planning process. So, since we’re all writers,...

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Hard vs Easy Parts of Writing

Dialogue: Talking Heads vs Meaningful Conversation This week for our How I Write series, my accountability group asked, “Dialogue, narrative, exposition, or description? What are your favorite parts of...

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Are You BFFs With Your Heroines? Could You Be?

Tabitha Gifford (Center)This week for our How I Write series, my accountability group asked, “Could you be best friends with any of the heroines you’ve written. Is she/Are they someone you would hang...

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Character Development & Archetypes

This week for our How I Write series, my accountability group asked, “How do you develop your characters? Do you have a favourite kind/archetype?” We covered part of the idea of character development...

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What’s Your Self-Editing Process?

Raw image as downloaded from camera. I’m trying to develop/discover my self-editing process and this week in my accountability group How I Write series was asked, “Do you have an editing process? If...

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What’s Your Self-Editing Process?

I’m trying to develop/discover my self-editing process and this week in my accountability group How I Write series was asked, “Do you have an editing process? If so, what?” This is one of the things...

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The 2020 Beau Monde Writers’ Retreat will be Virtual!

You may have seen me mention the Beau Monde before and wondered what it is… The Beau Monde is an online writing organization with members all over the world that welcomes all writers of Regency-set...

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