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  • Yes, That Is My Novel Splayed All Over The Walls

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    This is my current workspace: And that is AFTER I spent a couple hours last night organizing my notes. Since I have a lot more free time (in theory) than I do during school, I am trying to get a large chunk of writing completed on my latest novel. I’m posting this pic because I…

  • Fantasy Clichés–Avoided!

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    OR, Not Another Prophecy About ‘The One!’ I just ran across this list of tired, overdone clichés in fantasy novels, and decided to post it up here. Since, after all, I didn’t get a proper post out on Thursday… I was SO surprised to see the fantasy I’ve started posting on this blog doesn’t fall into too…

  • Lights, Camera – Wait, Where’s the Script?

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    Three Challenges when Screenwriting:   Writers like to experiment. Sometime we try new points of view (this post points out a new trend). Sometimes we try a new genre (see Soldiering Through the Writing World’s post on this). And sometimes we try something completely different – like writing a script for an online video.    That’s…

  • Copyright Woes and Weirdness

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    If you write both fanfiction and original stories, you know there’s a tension between the two – as a fanfic author you want the freedom to use other people’s characters, but as an author you kind of hate the thought that someone out there could take your precious creations and do creepy things with them……

  • Why Polly? Chapter 1 – Meet the Princess

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    UPDATE: Why Polly? was previously available in its entirety here. Stay tuned for an updated release in ebook and print versions–a good way to stay in the loop would be to subscribe! In the meantime, you should check out my other two novellas: Paris in Clichés Alanna’s dream is to sit in a cafe in…

  • Same Old Story

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    OR, Are Original Plots Over-rated? I love Bollywood movies. I’ve only watched one, but they tell me there’s all the same (Apparently these movies tell the same stories over and over – a highly cynical view, I think). But I loved the one I watched – the emotional, over-the-top, tug-at-your-heartstrings cheesiness of it all. Which…

  • EPICNESS in the Footsteps of Tolkien

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    I went through a phase of being obsessed with epic fantasy (see the post Fantasy Round-Up). I still like it, but it’s less of an obsession. Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The Wheel of Time series… the more epic, the better. So when I was assigned to write poetry in school I tried my…

  • An Immeasurable Fairyland

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    Another ‘light-hearted flight of fancy’ – also, the only bit of poetry I’ve been paid for. In contrast to last week’s poem, it rhymes. 🙂   An Immeasurable Fairyland I walked into a lonesome glade Where on stem and leaf and every blade Of grass there danced a fairy maid And trails of gems through…

  • Rhymes and Non-Rhymes

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    I like poetry to rhyme. Sure, some non-rhyming poetry is neat, but as a kid it stuck in my head that poems = rhymes, and poems that don’t rhyme feel weird somehow. Still, I’ve written some stuff that doesn’t rhyme. I like the challenge of rhyming, but when I want to write an idea quickly,…

  • Limerick

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    No time for a deep, insightful blog post on the meaning of life today, so instead you get some nonsense poetry. Namely, a limerick:   I walked along the beach And stepped upon a peach. I slipped, and whacked Muscle Man, who cracked And now I’m quite dead meat.     Not exactly a wonderful limerick,…