Tag: the last of the steamers
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How Better Outlining Can Save Weeks of Editing
Editing my drafts often feels like playing Jenga with a novel. Fix one thing and another issue appears somewhere else. After reading a post about writing inefficiency, I began to wonder whether the real problem lies earlier in the process.
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NaNoWriMo – Three Project Reflections
It’s the midst of November, so aspiring wordsmiths across the world are putting pen to paper (or hands to keyboard) in order to attempt National Novel Writing Month – the 30-day challenge to put together a 50,000 word novel (or more realistically, a very rough first draft of one)! As I’ve mentioned in previous posts,…
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The Story of “The Steamers”
Today I’d like to comprehensively and openly talk about my first – and currently shelved – novel The Last of the Steamers. As with all stories, I’ll start at the beginning with the genesis of the book idea. I’d been toying around for a while, considering what I wanted to do, and one evening in…
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