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, , becca April 19, 2010

Tap… Tap… Tap.

Oh, mercy. This is going to take forever. Do you know how there are some days when it all clicks? Whatever it is you’re doing, it just sort of happens? Those days are good, right? I have those days when I’m writing. Sometimes I can bust out a thousand words in an hour. One very
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, becca April 17, 2010

News Flash: Boys and Girls are Different.

I know. This is breakthrough stuff. But it’s on my mind, so now it’s on your screen. Once upon a time, maybe ten years ago, I read a book. This is not news. But the book was nonfiction (rare), and about sports (exceedingly rare). It’s called “The Power of Nice” by a sports agent/lawyer called
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, , , , , becca March 15, 2010

Half

Does it feel like Thursday was a long time ago to anyone else? Yikes. And I’ve been Momming and Playing so much that I haven’t written a thing. Not a blog post, barely an email. Certainly no revisions. So all my big plans of submitting? They’ve gone the way of the… well, whatever. Gone, anyway.
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, , , becca February 4, 2010

Writing Style

I’m learning things about how I write. More specifically, how I write successfully.* I’m convinced that Writers with Character come up with a brilliant title, dazzling characters, a wicked hook, and a stunning plot. They outline. They plan. They write fifteen hundred to two thousand words every day and make a book. I get the
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, , becca January 15, 2010

Thank Heaven for the Draft

Once upon a time I wrote this: Here’s a thought: Don’t ask God to tell you what you need to work on unless you’re ready for full-scale, wholesale humiliation*. There’s a reason “humility” and “humiliation” are related. Ug. So here I am, wandering around thinking I’m okay, doing my best (in my lazy way) to
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, becca December 21, 2009

Uncap the Pen

Just do it, I tell myself. Open the notebook. Scratch out the words. Sit down at the desk. Let fingers find keys. A dozen words. A hundred. A thousand. Uncover the characters. Discover voices. Let them tell their stories. Listen to their dialog. Shake your head over their mistakes. Let them try. Let them fail.
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, becca October 15, 2009

Foggy

No school today – it’s Fall Break (which once upon a time, I kid you not, was called “The Deer Hunt”). So I slept in until it was almost time for the sun to come up (Seven! Yea!) and looked out the window to find thick, white, heavy fog. The streetlight couldn’t even cut a
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, becca October 13, 2009

Galley Day

This morning I got a visit from the FedEx man. Don’t you love it when that happens? I live in a short cul-de-sac, and we as a neighborhood get lots of FedEx and UPS traffic. It is a rare treat for the truck to actually land outside my door. Today he came, and he delivered
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