Cedar Writes

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  • Writing with Emotion

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    A snippet of fiction – literally, it was only a couple of hundred words long – passed before my eyes in the last few days, and the discussion over it and what was wrong with it led to this post. I’ve altered it, somewhat, but left the problems intact for the purposes of discussing the…

  • On Writing

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    In which the writer contemplates procrastination, deadlines, and boredom. I knew when the last semester ended that I needed to have this novel written in the next month. That was Dec. 9, and I would be back in full-time classes by Jan 26th. I also was taking a ten-day trip from the middle of the…

  • Covers and Writing

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    My #indiepublishing how-to contribution over at Mad Genius Club today is covers, specifically how to judge, find, and use art suitable for an ebook cover (planning ahead for print, as well).  Although this is a topic I’ve covered a few times (heh) this year, we continue to get questions about it, so I’ve done it…

  • Artfully: Day 11

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    This one’s for Dad, who requested one of my ‘one line kitties’ I used to do these with quill pen on watercolor paper. Today’s is digital, because I’ve been writing like mad and don’t want to distract my brain with more of the Wizbun story. That, and I don’t know where the rabbit and dragon…

  • Shifting Gears

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    That funny grinding noise you hear is my brain trying to shift from school speed to writing, full steam ahead.  Last night I felt rather lost, thinking: I’ve got homework, I am sure… wait, no.  So I stepped away from the computer, and picked up a stack of books to study beginnings, before starting Dragon…

  • Free Fiction and Writing thoughts

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    Posted over at Mad Genius Club… Picking up the thread of Peter Grant’s blog on vacations yesterday, and harking back to David Pascoe talking about writing with an infant in arms, I thought I would touch on techniques to keep productive around the day job. Or in my case, the day jobs and the school.…

  • Writing Dreams

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    I’ve been writing in stolen moments for a long time. Some of my first work, like Twisted Breath of God, which was written sometime in 2001, happened while I had a babe in arms and a toddler. Any readers who have had children know what that means. I might also have been pregnant… my timelines…

  • Reviews on Hiatus

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    I’m not going to give up reviewing altogether. I’m stubborn, as you may have noticed. But I haven’t even had a few minutes here and there to pull up my Kindle app on the phone, it’s been that bad. So I am reluctantly admitting that I can’t do a weekly review. You’re likely to get…

  • What’s next?

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    First, I have a post up at Mad Genius Club on new books, how they are like infections, and Ebola. Secondly, Ben Hartley gave me a very nice review on The God’s Wolfling over on Amazon, and infected me with an idea. Sir, I can’t decide if you get a thank you, or a muted…

  • 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,…

  • 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.…