Tag: Her Dying Day
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Word of the Year 2024
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2024. There’s nothing more joyous to me than the idea of putting the past year to bed and allowing yourself a fresh start. Cleaning off the slate to have space to begin anew. But it’s equally worthwhile to review the past year before you move forward. I start with contemplating…
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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 