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Not Today: Why Fiction Matters
Warning: If you are not caught up on episode 8.3 of Game of Thrones, spoilers are coming… My thought process in this blog post might be a bit disjointed, but I swear all of these things are connected. I’m trying to get at something here, maybe, so stay with me.…
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Today in Self-Care: Charlie is a Good Boy
In order to get myself back on track while working on my next book, I am kind of trying to get my whole life back on track in a sense. This means going back to taking care of myself, which is one of the things that fell to the wayside…
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Plotter or Pantser?
Question: If you’re a writer and you don’t participate in this discussion, are you even really a writer? Hint: The answer is yes, of course, if you’re writing you’re a writer. But I’m going to talk about it anyway. If you’d asked me two years ago, I would have told…
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What am I doing here anyway?
This is not some big existential blog post about what I, a human in a sea of other humans, is doing here on this planet. No. If you’re looking for that, I’m sure I’ll write about it someday, but only after I have had a lot of wine and asked…
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What the F do I write now?
In 2018 I finished writing my debut novel (do you call it a debut when it’s the first one you’ve finished or the first one you get published because I haven’t gotten it published in which case I finished writing what I hope will be my debut novel). Now I…
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Obligatory New Year’s Resolutions Post
I accomplished a lot in 2018. I got a new very adult and very good job that I enjoy most days. I made a significant dent in my student loans. I made it an entire year as a married person. I found things to do that help my mental health…
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How I Finished My Novel: Part Twelve – I Hated My Writing Coach
John – and everyone else who’s reading this — please know the title is definitely written dripping with sarcasm. I love my writing coach. The final part of finishing my novel was a final round of revisions. This round involved John, my wonderful writing coach, pushing me to justify sentences,…
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How I Finished My Novel: Part Three – Plotting
I am the type of writer that we all call a pantser. I’ve been working on this novel for six years and most of that six years involved very little plotting and a lot of pantsing. In the last year or two, I’ve started to do more plot work. As…
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How I Finished My Novel: Part Two – Confidence
The first time I spoke with John, he was going through a first chapter diagnosis with me. And I have no idea how from so few words he diagnosed such an incredible problem with my writing, but he did. He said something to me that has been stuck in my…
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Made-Up Stories Can Matter
There’s a quote in the introduction to The Fault in Our Stars by John Green where he’s talking about the time he spent working with kids who had cancer. Apparently a lot of people wanted to know how much of what he wrote in his fiction was based in fact.…
Erin Lodes 