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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.
This week’s blog post is about fast drafting your series. Last time we talked about fast drafting your novel and why you might use it as a strategy. This week I want to deep dive into the specifics of how you go about accomplishing this type of drafting.
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. It’s all the rage. Publishers and readers alike agree. Writing novels in a series is where it’s at. But did you consider that for an author, this may be a hard …
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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. 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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Click this link to hear this blog post as a podcast with your favorite podcasting app! Hello lovelies and welcome back to the blog. Two weeks ago, I talked about how many drafts a writer needs. As with everything, it depends on a number of elements. I wanted to provide a contrasting sort of comparison …
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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.
Hello Lovelies, and welcome back. We talked last week about what a Zero Draft is and whether or not you want to write one. This week, I want to talk about a more common concept, that of a first draft. Let's dive in. What is a First Draft? A first draft, also known as a …
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Hello there lovelies, and welcome back to the blog. We've been going through a series about drafting and have covered both Zero Drafts and First Drafts. Today I want to talk about how you move from your zero draft to a finished first draft. As I've spoken about before, I consider any zero draft to …
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