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22 Jul

The Binder: Is Printing Out Your 1st Draft Right for You?

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By Daria Vernon
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The Binder: Is Printing Out Your 1st Draft Right for You?

Before writing what would become my official debut novel, I’d written three others, all of which were written at breakneck speed as NaNoWriMo projects. They were my “practice novels.” It turns out, I’m fairly willing to churn out garbage first drafts. The real hurdle is DRAFT 2. Not draft 1.2 or 1.8 but the real

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07 Jul

Writer’s Block or Writer’s Slog?

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Writer’s Block or Writer’s Slog?

Sometimes I, like the rest of us, suffer from writer’s block… This is not one of those times. I still have ideas. I can still whip up a workable (if not lovable) outline for my WIPs. And my recent word counts (I’m told) are enviable, at 2000-4000 words per day. Yet things feel “blah.” This

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Fortune’s Flames by Janelle Taylor (1988) I’ Fortune’s Flames by Janelle Taylor (1988) 

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