Guest Post: Writing While Ill

Today’s guest post is by Andrea Buginsky, author of The Chosen and My Open Heart. ~*~ Writing While Ill When you’re not feeling well, there’s really nothing you want to do. You certainly don’t want to work. So what do you do when you have a writing assignment deadline fast approaching while you’re not feeling [...]

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[Repost] – A writer’s thankful heart

This is a re-post from a guest blog I did last week at Linda’s Words From the Heart Blog. It would have been more appropriate yesterday but, hey, I was enjoying Turkey Day ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ This is the time of year where everyone begins to consider the question: What are you thankful for? In [...]

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Red Sky Warning – Back Cover Description + Cover

Each day I get a little closer to the publication of my 2nd book. I published the first with barely a chirp, but was still excited. Now people are actually looking forward to it and that adds a whole new level of thrills. ~*~ In this fast-paced follow-up to Wendy L. Young’s debut novel, Come [...]

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Review and Interview – Norma Budden loves Come the Shadows

I’ve been connecting with a lot more people on both Twitter and Goodreads lately. Social media is such an important part of the new Author Paradigm, as Karen Baney pointed out here recently, and it comes with pleasant surprises and support. Author Norma Budden took the time to pick up my book and give a [...]

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Second Verse, Harder than the First

I’ve read multiple lines that all say the same thing: The second novel is much harder to write than the first I breezed through the first draft of my second novel, Red Sky Warning, spending almost one less month writing it than I spent on the first book, Come the Shadows. Great, right? Commence back-patting. [...]

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Playing Catch-Up

It’s time to play catch-up. Or drag my feet. Whichever way you want to look at it. Thursday evening I completely finished my massive typing job. I was disappointed to find out the book is currently only 48.5k words (Come the Shadows is 66k, almost exactly average for the genre) but know that editing turns [...]

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Sweet Progress

The extended typing project is going well and by mid-week I will have the first draft of my second novel complete. Then it’s on to the editing! I have several pieces of news to share soon. October will be devoted to editing almost exclusively. November…..that’s another story. I will be polishing and polishing and polishing [...]

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Such a neglectful blogmistress

If you wonder… no, I am not holed up in a deep dark cave writing. (Though that thought is a little bit attractive, with the exception of the lighting issues… and the creepy-crawlies.) I actually update a lot. I just don’t do it here. The best way to keep up with the latest is to [...]

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In the home stretch and feeling the burn

I counted last night. 140 = the number of hand-written pages currently comprising the vaguely named Book 2 45 = the budgeted pages left, based on content remaining (approximate) 60 = the actual number of pages left in the spiral notebook These are hand-written pages. I still haven’t typed a word. I’m crazy. I know. [...]

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The more I write, the more…

There are a lot of ways to finish that statement. The more I write, the more observant I become. The more I write, the happier I am. and so on But what strikes me now is this: The more I write, the more creative I become. I didn’t really expect that, in advance. I had [...]

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