Tag Archive: novels

Aug 01

Word choice makes the story better

If using a word doesn’t push the story along and it is merely there to use a big word what is the point of using it

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Jun 07

Something in me has changed since finishing my first book

The air is still as dark but I am find­ing cracks of light in the crevices of my mind.

Feb 28

Your dreams are like air…

Life is a hand­ful of short sto­ries, pre­tend­ing to be a novel. – Anony­mous Breath­ing is some­thing our body does for us, we know it is there and yet we still ignore it. A human’s dreams are much the same. If you ask a six-year-old what he wants to be when he/she grows up, they will …

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Jan 28

Whatever happens…towards the end…keep writing

Days seem to drift by lazily lately. Every day seems like the one before. I wait for my chance to write, to put things in front of the pub­lic that I wrote. That day is approach­ing fast, I know there are still things I need to do, still writ­ing, rewrit­ing and revis­ing. I am aware …

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Jan 11

Still struggling

Maybe I have changed as a writer, or maybe the writ­ing has changed who I am. I like to think it is the latter.

Jan 04

Taking steps forward, looking in on myself

Please if you want some­thing in life, take the step for­ward to do it.

Dec 31

2010, a personal retrospective

For last year’s words belong to last year’s lan­guage and next year’s words await another voice.” T.S. Elliot The new year is upon us and with it new chal­lenges ahead and new dreams to come true. When I posted this same thing last year I had no idea what would be in store for me …

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Dec 15

Getting help from my cousin, who is published has been awesome!

I have always believed I should do the work with my writ­ing, no hand­outs.  This is dif­fer­ent, this per­son has helped me grow as a writer more than I believed pos­si­ble. My cousin that is pub­lished that I have referred to posted some­thing about me today. She has been doing notes on my fin­ished manuscript …

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Nov 30

Giving some credit to my wife for my writing

I am not sure where I would be with­out her help, her shoul­der to cry on when I get a bad cri­tique or when she is there just because she is herself.

Nov 22

Finding the voice and grasping it with both hands, never to let go.

I will be pub­lished, not because I want it so bad, but because it feels like what I am meant to do.

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