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, , becca October 13, 2010

Sick of it All

So I’ve been thinking about viruses. Haven’t you? Last month I taught at a conference where Brandon “Check out my dimple and my NY Times Bestsellers” Mull said that passion is contagious. He meant passion for our writing. If you’re feeling it when you write, someone should feel it when he reads. I love that.
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, , , , , becca October 9, 2010

I shouldn’t have deleted it.

I get rather a lot of comments on my blog that you don’t see. More than the kind you do see. These are the kind with a zillion links to famous people I don’t know, and sometimes written in Russian/Cyrillic alphabet, and containing Offers. Such as the one I just deleted, that I should maybe
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, becca September 23, 2010

Hard Stuff

Don’t you sometimes wish the hard stuff just didn’t exist? Or that it would go away? But here’s a thing I’ve been pondering lately, and several people have been talking about it. And blogging about it. If we don’t know the hard stuff, what do we really know at all? I’m extremely lucky (lucky =
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, , becca May 4, 2010

Rat Poison

Remember that last week I did school visits to the 7th and 8th grade honors kids? Remember that? They do. Maybe. But here’s something we talked about. Healthy literacy is like a healthy diet. To eat well, you need a blend of this and that. Lots of variety. Lots of color. Would it hurt you
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, , , becca March 4, 2010

Reading the Draft

This is funny. I’m reading through the draft and laughing here and there. Laughing at my own writing is a very happy thing. One funny thing happening is this: I have a major character who used to be named Nate, but is now named Charlie. This has nothing to do with a brother who may
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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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