Cedar Writes

Category: writing

  • Writing Roundup

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    All right, I’m sitting here with a brain full of recipes and a novella to complete. You probably had enough of the recipes yesterday, and anyway, these I haven’t made yet. So I’m running around the blogosphere collecting quotes and articles I recommend to you as authors/inde publishers/ what-have-you. See you tomorrow! Dean Wesley Smith…

  • Writing and Plotting

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    I’ve been making good progress with the book this week, enough that I may begin to snippet as early as next week. Or I might stick a bit onto the end of this post. I can’t recall if I have done an early snip of this book, or not. I’d postponed writing it once before,…

  • Amazonian Insight

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    As the whole controversy about Amazon/Hachette rolls on, with the rumor spreading like wildfire last night that Amazon was doing funny things with not delivering ebooks (They aren’t. There is a known glitch that affects very few systems and it is already under repair. But people are more interested in conspiracy theories than facts) I…

  • Back to Writing

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    I’d been stuck on writing the last couple of days. I managed a little, but wasn’t hitting my word goals, and what was really frustrating, I’d hit a wall. Literally, I had my heroine knocking on a door, her sidekicks behind her, and as an author… I had no idea what was behind that wall.…

  • Freedom of Writing

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    I have, as I type this, a whole day to myself. I have a thing in the evening, but my First Reader is gone to work, and I have nothing pressing to take me out of the house at all. So… why is this hard? I’m free to write whatever I want, whenever I want,…

  • Writing Together

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    I wrote today over at Mad Genius Club about how my writing this novel, alone, feels oddly like working without a net. I know writing is generally considered a solitary occupation, but I think it is less so for most of us than we might at first admit. I know that by the time my…

  • Review: Fallen Race

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    First of all, I know some of you know this trick, but I’ll tell it for the rest of you. Before you buy a book on Amazon, you can take a “look inside” they call it, which is a free preview which allows you to read the first part of the book and see if…

  • School’s Out!

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    I have this effervescent burst of feeling, like freedom in my veins… It is balanced, of course, by knowing that although homework may be on hold until the next class, work is never done. I have a novel to write. A short novel, granted, as it is a YA book, but still. I plan to…

  • Plan a free weekend before starting this book ….

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    Very nice review, thank you!

  • Writing Emotionally

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    Once upon a time… No, this isn’t that kind of a story. That kind of story implies a happily-ever-after ending, and magical middle, and a cozy snuggle while someone reads it aloud to you. What about the other kind of story, where the author’s heart-blood lies upon the page and you can feel the emotion?…

  • Review: Grimm Legacy

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    I picked up a copy of The Grimm Legacy after meeting the author, Addie J King, at Millennicon this spring. I’d heard her talk on panels and in a reading we were both at, about the characters, and especially the 400-year old talking frog prince… I think that alone sold me on wanting this book.…

  • Trickster Noir: Snippet 14

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    Bella’s alarm woke her early. She rolled out of bed and sat on the edge, rubbing her eyes. All the travel and stress of the day before had caught up with her. She’d lain down thinking she wouldn’t sleep and had fallen into the darkness almost before completing that thought. Now she was groggy and…