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Writing: I Can’t Believe I Wrote This!
Am I bored with my own story? I created the characters, the worlds they live in, and the things they do, but I’ve been stuck at 26,300 words of my novel for about 2 months now. I’ve been ignoring my...
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Joint Venture: Summer Reading Tips from Raymond Bean, Award-winning Author
Summer Reading Tips I read the jotter’s joint post on summer reading from May 10, 2012, and it resonated with me. Gail recommended one of my books, which won me over immediately, but it was the...
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Writer’s Block: Take Another Step, Add a New Character
The process of writing has been slow. I committed to my writing partner that I would produce 1500 new words last week. With two and a half days left in the accountability week, I was sweating...
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Writing: Failing Forward
“I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” ~ Benjamin Franklin I failed to complete my writing goals for this week. They weren’t overwhelming or outside of my grasp. I committed...
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The Suspension of Disbelief in Writing
My boys know I am writing a novel. My oldest even remembers to ask me how it’s going from time to time. I love that about him. He’s very thoughtful. Recently, he wanted an update: “Mom, when will your...
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Reading to My Children, Books They Love to Pieces …
My husband and I have been reading to our children since the womb. We would crawl into bed and choose from a stack of rhyming books to read my rounded tummy. When my husband read he could usually...
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The Booker Award
Thank you to my dear blogger friend, Jenni, of News of the Times for the nomination of this award. Her blog keeps me informed of issues in the world but not like reporting the news. She also has some...
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Celebrating the Love of Reading …
I’ve been boasting to my dudes about how I used to stay up all night (2 or 3 in the morning and still getting up for school by 6AM) reading by flashlight under the covers. Of course they thought that...
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Best Beginnings
“There is no beginning too small.” ~Henry David Thoreau Currently on my nightstand … some on loan from friends. © 2014 the Jotter’s Joint My best beginning is steeped in words and was the best...
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I Read White: The Issue of a Single Story
© 2014 the Jotter’s Joint When I first started writing fiction I wanted to be intentional about representing a diverse cast of characters: race, culture, and socio-economic levels. For my first novel,...
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