Tag: writing advice
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Ice that cake, baby
(What??!! A non Saturday Morning Post on Saturday??? What happened?? So, so many things. Just get over it.) Ah. It’s good to be back. *I lean back sipping my London fog and wondering who I am because whenever I go anywhere I always order a chai tea latte but what the heck* I once more…
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Saturday Morning Post, Vol. 62
I haven’t done one of these Saturday Morning Posts in a while. Originally, I was going to do a Wednesday post. I’m deep in the editing swamps, and I had a lot of “editing” thoughts on my mind, so I thought I would write something like, “things to look for when editing – including bilocating…
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animal companions for your heroes and villains
The only pets I’ve ever had were hamsters when I was a kid. Though I love them dearly, I do wonder if owning hamsters was more traumatizing than anything else. One of my go-to stress dreams is of hamsters running amok in the house and me desperately trying to contain them. Also the first hamster…
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the romantic and the depressed
I decided to be super organized and actually planned out all my blog posts for the month of January, to ensure I would actually, you know, write blogs. However, I took one look at today’s topic, crumpled it, and hurled it out the window into the snow to freeze. I have thus arrived with no…
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Writing is Not a DIY Project
I have drafted quite a few novels over the years (12 I think??? Geez), but I still can tell you, every time I sit down to do prep before I write a novel…I’m never sure what it was I did the last time. BUM BUM BUM It’s officially October, which means preptober for those of…
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Saturday Morning Post, Vol. 61
1. September 22nd. It’s officially fall. And it couldn’t be a better first, fall morning at 8am. It’s dark and deeply overcast. It’s cool, and already there are brown leaves scattered across the lawn. The rain is steady, soft drifts of it coming down. It patters with a metallic thunk on the cars, drips and…
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August Wrap Up (really I’m just excited about September)
So I was googling myself today for no particular reason… I found old blogs that I didn’t realize had been reblogged, found a poem on Poetry Nook and like….how did it get there??? I vaguely remember submitting to there circa 2012 (or earlier). But anyway, there’s a poem there and it’s really bad (also there’s…
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thoughts from a writer melted by summer
Summer 2020 sucked. Summer 2021 has sucked in its own way too, not least because of the constant cycle of disasters world over and the stream of bad news. Though we may not have had murder hornets this year, we did have people trying to convince us to eat cicadas. The amount of creativity I’ve…
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um….I got published?!!??
(Yes, yes I know I said that I was getting back on a regular blogging schedule. And yes, I realize I did not post on Saturday. But that was because I had a performance on Friday (all day sort of thing), which is when I usually write my Saturday blogs. So really I just picked…
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If something can go wrong, it should go wrong (like in fiction. Not real life. Please not real life)
(When was the last time I did a post on Wednesday? I have no idea, yet here we are. Welcome back) “If something can go wrong, it will go wrong.” Murphy’s law. An old military saying. Whatever you like to think of it as. Along similar lines, I would like to create a new saying;…
Bernadette Benda 