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Trying to reach 1,667 words every day during the month of November is a challenge. I know from experience. I’ve participated on many occasions and I’ve failed to reach 50,000 words more times than I have made it. For some, 1,667 words is not a big deal. They easily go double or triple that and […]
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Summer is finally here and with it, a packed updated to the Online Writing Log. Although not everything is visible or available within the app itself yet, it’ll be soon! Since the last update, I’ve been pretty busy with new features, updates and fixes. Here’s a brief list of what’s new. A new initial setup […]
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As I’m writing this, there are just hours remaining before the 2017 edition of NaNoWriMo begins. Writers all over the world are prepping their stories, ready to start writing at midnight November 1st. In fact, depending on the time zone, some have already begun. The last few weeks, I’ve been going back and forth on […]
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In just a few days from now, thousands of writers around the world will embark on a writing adventure. They will spend a whole month writing, their goal to finish their novel or reach 50000 words. Some spend months preparing, others just sit down and write. I’ve done both. This year, I’m not yet sure […]
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Wow, October is here. In fact, it’s halfway done at this point. The leaves have turned, the winds are picking up and the top of the mountains look like they have been sprinkled with powdered sugar. Or, as a certain TV show would say, winter is coming, slowly but surely. I realized a few weeks […]
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Since I joined Wattpad almost two years ago, I’ve had mixed feelings about the platform. Quite honestly, at this point in time, I even have a hard time remembering why I even joined, whether it was to read or to have others read my stories. Regardless, throughout these last couple of years, I’ve had an on-off-on-again […]
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Back in April, I posted links to some of the stories written by Writing Challenge participants that I had come across. At that time, my goal was to repeat every month, highlighting the fruits of the labor of my fellow writers. Alas, time ran away from me and it didn’t happen in May. Now, with […]
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Throughout the years as I’ve read books and articles about writing fiction, the one thing that has stuck in my mind is the hook. You need to hook your reader. The first paragraph, the first sentence, it’s all important. You have to get it right. Screw it up and your reader may not get past […]
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The monthly Writing Challenge on Twitter is a great community for writers. It’s a place where those of us that write can encouraging one another to keep at it, to keep those words coming, to finish that story. What we sometimes may lose sight of are all the great stories that actually come out of […]
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About six months ago, I looked back on a year of participation in the Monthly Writing Challenge on Twitter and what that had meant for my writing output. The results were pretty good, I thought. I wrote more in that one year than I ever had in a year before. I didn’t stop there though. […]
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