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2023 Gifts for Writers
It’s that time of year again–Holiday Gifting Season! My theme for 2023 is Care and Nurturing of Creativity. Sometimes that care looks like alone time and sometimes it looks like time spent with friends and family. At it’s core, nurturing creativity is whatever makes you feel good inside and out. And let me preface this…
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Get Your NaNo Groove Back
Never try to do NaNoWriMo and plan a curling bonspiel for kids at the same time. I’ve dropped out of trying to hit my goal of 50K words in 30 days, which is a weird goal anyway when you’re in rewriting mode. You add 1000 words and then delete 1000 words all on the same…
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October is NaNoWriMo Prep-Month!
So. You want to write a novel this November. Awesome! Amazing! Do it! A mystery novel needs to be around 75K – 90K words. (Other genres have different word count ranges.) Agents are pretty specific about word counts and I’ve known some agents who have rejected a book without reading it because it was below…
Mindy Carlson 