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Hello Lovelies, and welcome back to the blog. It’s a new year, which means it’s time to set some new goals, so let’s jump straight in. Last year was kind of rough in that I don't feel like I got as much writing accomplished as I thought I was going to. I wanted to write …
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In this post we're going to briefly recap all the things we've learned about writing drafts and about revising them throughout the year. If you've missed any of these lessons, you can find them all linked on the blog.
Click this link to hear this blog post as a podcast with your favorite podcasting app! Hello Lovelies and welcome back to the blog. It’s all the rage. Publishers and readers alike agree. Writing novels in a series is where it’s at. Last week we talked about some of the drawbacks of writing a series …
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Click this link to hear this blog post as a podcast with your favorite podcasting app! Hello lovelies and welcome back to the blog. We've been talking about revisions and how to get through your draft process. A few weeks ago, I gave you an overview of how to work through a revision in a …
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Click this link to hear this blog post as a podcast with your favorite podcasting app! Hello lovelies and welcome back to the blog. We've been talking about revisions and how to get through your draft process. A few weeks ago, I gave you an overview of how to work through a revision in a …
Continue reading "Revise from Most Problematic to Least"
Click this link to hear this blog post as a podcast with your favorite podcasting app! Hello lovelies and welcome back to the blog. We've been talking about revisions and how to get through your draft process. A few weeks ago, I gave you an overview of how to work through a revision in a …
Continue reading "Revision Readthrough"
Click this link to hear this blog post as a podcast with your favorite podcasting app! Hello lovelies and welcome back to the blog. Last week we started talking about revisions and how to get through your draft process. I gave you an overview of how to work through a revision in a way that …
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Brandon Sanderson is a writer who goes through many revisions. He talks about this over several years during his BYU class lectures on YouTube, and I wanted to distill his process down from several videos, which I will link at least one of them in the description for the podcast and below this blog article for anyone who wants to hear him talk about it more in depth.
Do you set daily or weekly writing goals, and consistently meet them? If you live and die by the idea that you have to write every day, you might be someone who writes slow and steady. Slow and steady writers will chunk out their work and try to reach a certain word or page count goal every day or every week. This type of novelist keeps a steady pace, pushing forward one step at a time.
Are you a binge writer? There are a lot of bad connotations associated with binging anything. Perhaps you binge watch shows or you binge eat when you're stressed. Did you know you could also binge write?
Rachel Cooper 