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How to Improve Your Writing

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My number one suggestion is find other writers to connect to. A writer’s group be it online or face to face is a good start. When I first started writing I was at home with an infant and a lot of my writing was done in seclusion. But, I wasn’t completely alone. I had taken…

NanoWrimo Day 30 10:41 am

writingrose

Okay so here it is day 30.  Total word count for the month of November not counting all the blog posts and other things that I wrote, but for Palace of Three Crosses: 58051. Not to shabby. How do I feel? This is definitely a mixed bag: Relieved-the month is over. I met and exceeded…

NanoWrimo Day 23 12:22 p.m.

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So yesterday I told you I had reached the 50000 word count goal, so you probably thought, well she is finished and we won’t see any more posts on Nano, at least about this years contest.  Well that would be a case of slight nonthinking on your part. Mostly you are right, in that I…

NanoWrimo Day 22 2:19 p.m.

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Woohoo it is finished. I reached 50,166 at 12:30 p.m. Ahead of even my own projections. I had estimated at a schedule of 2000 words a day and taking Sundays and Thanksgiving  I should have been at 38000 this morning. Instead I was at 48000. Who could not finish it at that point. Now I…

NanoWrimo Day 18 11:32 a.m

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Okay sometimes when I write I am not always in the best frame of mind when I sit down to write. In fact sometimes I am down right miserable. Take last night hubby had a melt down. I responded with one of my own. Then I stomped into my office, slammed the door knocking my…

Day 15 NanoWrimo 11:40 a.m.

writingrose

Cheers and jeers today. I reached my personal goal for the weekend of 30,000 words. I have passed the halfway point, I am on the down hill slide, the hard part is over. Well if those are all true then why am I stuck. Even the last 800 words I wrote yesterday were hard to…

Day 13 NanoWrimo 8:57 a.m

writinghands

Okay I’m not going to have much to say today. I have continued plugging along and have gotten my word count to a very happy place, but I’m not going to rest on the current word count. Instead I will continue to plow forward and rack up the words. The story is taking some exciting…

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