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Continue reading →: What your editor goes throughSo on not so good authority, this is totally what your editor (and beta-reader) goes through while editing your novel for the first time. Spare a somber thought for those who do it for free. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. This first line is insanely awesome! I…
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Continue reading →: Submitting your manuscript to the big Aussie publishersWhile I decided a few months ago that I would be self-publishing my work, I feel like it’s a compulsory #riteofpassage to submit your novel to one of the big publishing houses that accept unsolicited manuscripts. I’ve researched enough to accept the reality that I have zero to no chance…
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Continue reading →: The nine stages of writing your novelThere’s nothing quite like a cat to illustrate what writers really look like while writing a novel. Be warned!! So at the very beginning, you usually wake up in the middle of the night with the idea of a life time… It doesn’t take long before you’re super confident and eager to get your story down…
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Continue reading →: Novel progress – new title & book cover artI haven’t mentioned my novel much here on WP (as in actual specifics), so I thought it was about time. On the WIP My WIP is potentially either a sweet paranormal romance or a young adult fantasy novel. I’m hoping my beta reader can help me figure this out. My WIP is currently at 65k…
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Continue reading →: Another coffee postThere really is nothing more tempting and soul saving in the world to a writer then the smell of freshly roasted coffee beans in the morning, middle of the day, afternoon, evening and in the middle of the night (say, 3am?)
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Continue reading →: Killing off a favourite characterIn one of my previous posts I wrote that one hallmark for good teenage angst is this: Either chooses original first love, or the first dies and he/she chooses the second (can be reversed) I’ve written my novel in such a way that it could be either. I feel that either…
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Continue reading →: Save the Earth. It’s the only planet with chocolateI am forced into stillness, unable to act as I watch the unbridled show of greed displayed so evidently on my friend’s face. The world thunders and growls in protest, my resolve weakening as I encounter the earth-shattering blindness that must consume her. Repeated images flicker in my mind’s eye,…
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Continue reading →: When you’re single & a romance writer on February 14thOn February 14th 2016 I’ll be in Paris sipping a ristretto and eating macarons at Ladurée’s on the Champs-Élysées! Ok I’ll admit that’s not quite the truth… I actually plan to spend my Valentine’s Day working on my romance novel while watching something along the lines of Sense and Sensibility or Emma.…
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Continue reading →: Funny story titles from when I was youngerI was going through my old stories that I started and later ditched long, long ago, and had a chuckle at my own expense at some of the VERY silly titles I used to come up with. I thought I might share them with you! Some of them are corny,…
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Continue reading →: The three stages of editing your first draft – warning, there will be catsBased on my current experience, I think there are three main emotional stages to the (first draft) editing process, and this is what we look like while going through them: CONFIDENCE At the beginning of the editing process you are confident in the face of all evil: 2. IRRATIONAL…
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