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On Writing in Drafts: Starting with Purpose

Thursday, July 1, 2010

I’ve admitted recently that I’m a little broken, but I’m getting better. After years of living with crippling anxiety, I finally started trying to improve.

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Get a Scribblebook

Thursday, April 22, 2010

There are incredible benefits to writing a novel by hand, including easier and better first drafts, and a more powerful reader experience. Get a scribblebook.

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Courtney’s Work-in-Progress Update

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Behold! The game is afoot, and The Second Draft loometh ahead, apparently precipitous but in reality more easily ascendable than its predecessor. In this, my most excellent beta reader = Mom = my climbing buddy, having scouted ahead and come back to me with a report of the obstacles and pitfalls I shall face. And so, knowing that forewarned is forearmed…

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Courtney’s Work-in-Progress Update

Saturday, February 20, 2010

I’m almost finished with Chapter 8.

I am so close to finishing this first draft, I can almost taste it!!!

I’ll keep you posted!

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Write it Early, Review it Late

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

That’s the biggest challenge of any blogging project: keeping up with the blog’s posting schedule. Really, it’s just a regularly recurring version of what is the biggest challenge for every writer: writing to a deadline.

There are techniques for handling that last minute writing, skills you can learn to make it as good as possible, but in the end that’s all just damage control. You cannot write your best quality work unless you write it early.

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