Tag Archives: 21 Days To a Novel
High Intensity Writing Workout No. 1

High Intensity Writing Workout No. 1

Because I’ve started teaching online writing classes through Arizona State University’s Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, I’ve been having to put together exercises to help students understand and master a variety of techniques. One of the things I’m pretty much death on is using he said/she said or their variants in dialogue. I […]

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Don’t Miss These Deals!

Don’t Miss These Deals!

The folks at Storybundle.com have put together two bundles where you get to set the price for what you buy. And these are smoking deals. First up in the Nanowrimo writing package. This is an incredible value. For the $20 I’d ask for my 21 Days to a Novel, you get ten writing books by […]

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The Secrets Super Pen (on sale for a limited time)

The Secrets Super Pen (on sale for a limited time)

Over Halloween I was asked if I had any of the Secrets Pens from this summer for sale. As you can see from the picture, the pen has a ballpoint, a 4 gig flash drive and a laser pointer. (That’s the button on top.) I’d run out of them at Dragoncon and sincerely thought I […]

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NaNoWriMo Prep Work

NaNoWriMo Prep Work

November is almost here and I have a novel to write. Of Limited Loyalty is the second book in the Crown Colonies series. It picks up roughly three years after At the Queen’s Command. As I did last year, I’ll be putting a lot of words on the project during November. I’ll also be blogging […]

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