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{95} Plotting: throwing out the crap

Last night was Productivity Thursday with my friend Kim McShane. She’s in the preparatory stages of launching a business, and I’m at the point where I’m thinking about plot and characters for my next “Big Writing Project”. I mean, I...

{93} A peek into my writing process

People don’t believe me, but I always come with the titles and character names FIRST. As example and proof of this, this morning I thought: I want to write a “Witch’s Cycle” fantasy trilogy that’s also comedic, named, in order,...

{89} Words and books

HOW many words is that???? A post by a friend made me refer back to one of my favorite lists for writers: Word Count for Famous Novels (organized).  I first stumbled across it clipped as a tumblr post, but the link is to the original 2011 blog post. I was taught young...

{84} ugh crossposting

I love Medium but I trust no one I’ve been through too many blog migrations to believe that any service/product is going to be around forever, or be free forever, or be uncensored forever. One reason I host my own blog (www.kimboosan.net) is so I have my content under...

{82} Friend’s Prompt #9

How about “20 Great Ideas for Blog Posts for When You Can’t Think of Anything to Write About” Oh, the burning irony of snarky friends. Thanks, SuzanneC, thanks. Just for that, I’m going fill this prompt with a list. A REAL LIST. You asked for it…literally… night vs....

{81} Friend’s Prompt #8

“When are we who we are?” [paraphrased] DawnP left this particularly interesting prompt for me: Don’t know if you are like this, but it’s easier to be in a crowd of people you don’t know, with maybe one or two friends, than a crowd of people you’ve met a few times and...