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Writing Through the Year: December 2009
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Writing Through the Year. Monday, December 7, 2009. Wednesday, November 9th. The following are the plans for this coming Wednesday's Novel Orchard meeting. What is it exactly that makes a good sentence? Is it a hook? Is it simply a well-crafted sentence? What sort of information does it contain? Do you have any idea? Come with paper and pen or pencil to write and then share what you've written. What do you think makes a great sentence? Posted by Megan Justice. Friday, December 4, 2009. What can you write?
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Writing Through the Year: July 2010
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Writing Through the Year. Wednesday, July 21, 2010. I would just like to take a moment to apologize for the lack of regular substantial updates to this blog over the past few weeks. Suffice to say that summer break from the blog is over now, and we will resume our regular schedule. I would also like to remind everyone out there that Rediscovered Bookshop has moved downtown! We are still meeting at Rediscovered but at their new location. And now, our guest blogger of the month, Noelle Veldhouse. It wasn&#...
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Writing Through the Year: Reading
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Writing Through the Year. Thursday, June 9, 2011. I know this blog is about writing, but I am much more of an active reader! So my posts will be geared more towards reading. I just finished the The Host. By Stephanie Meyer and I have to say I was not impressed with this book. I read the Twilight Series and I enjoyed those as a light easy read. But I have found this book was thrown together really quick to get in on all the Twilight frenzy and was not well written and really not that enjoyable!
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Writing Through the Year: Details
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Writing Through the Year. Thursday, June 24, 2010. Writer's block is horrible. trying to think of something to write for the blog today, I couldn't decide if I wanted to approach it from the perspective of the writing process, or maybe I wanted to talk about crafting language? Or, maybe I wanted to talk about crafting of story? Then I got to thinking. I mostly read sci-fi and fantasy, and come across things like this all the time. Unbelievable things. Sometimes I notice them, and having notic...Expositio...
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Writing Through the Year: June 2011
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Writing Through the Year. Wednesday, June 15, 2011. It's a scary thing, pressing that "submit" button. When do you do it? When is the writing ready to go? Is it ever really ready to go? How can one possibly answer these questions, especially when there's still that one paragraph (or stanza, or word, or scene, or whatever) that you, the writer, just know really could be better, and will clear up the writing and all of it's faults. Where is the elusive submit button found? How long is it? Is it a novel?
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Writing Through the Year: "Submit" Buttons
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Writing Through the Year. Wednesday, June 15, 2011. It's a scary thing, pressing that "submit" button. When do you do it? When is the writing ready to go? Is it ever really ready to go? How can one possibly answer these questions, especially when there's still that one paragraph (or stanza, or word, or scene, or whatever) that you, the writer, just know really could be better, and will clear up the writing and all of it's faults. Where is the elusive submit button found? How long is it? Is it a novel?
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Writing Through the Year: Editing Fast & Dirty
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Writing Through the Year. Sunday, November 28, 2010. Editing Fast and Dirty. Wednesday was a bit of a different critique night - instead of critiquing a page of writing, we talked about the editing process. Though editing can be a long and arduous process, it doesn't have to be painful. The following can be used to edit something that needs a hurried edit. I like to use this process as a starting point to anything I edit. I look at this initial (or fast) edit in the following four steps:. 3 Story and Plot.
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Writing Through the Year: New Beginnings
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Writing Through the Year. Wednesday, June 1, 2011. Your Novel Orchard is back and alive again on the web, with new and exciting plans for the near and distant future. What are these changes? You're reading one of them right here (twice weekly blog posts from a different board member). You want more changes? Stick around, and we'll tell you as they're implemented. Keep an eye out, you'll be able to spot some of them very quickly. Now, writers, why don't you tell us what you're beginning is?
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Writing Through the Year: June 2010
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Writing Through the Year. Thursday, June 24, 2010. Writer's block is horrible. trying to think of something to write for the blog today, I couldn't decide if I wanted to approach it from the perspective of the writing process, or maybe I wanted to talk about crafting language? Or, maybe I wanted to talk about crafting of story? Then I got to thinking. I mostly read sci-fi and fantasy, and come across things like this all the time. Unbelievable things. Sometimes I notice them, and having notic...In the la...
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Writing Through the Year: November 2010
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Writing Through the Year. Sunday, November 28, 2010. Editing Fast and Dirty. Wednesday was a bit of a different critique night - instead of critiquing a page of writing, we talked about the editing process. Though editing can be a long and arduous process, it doesn't have to be painful. The following can be used to edit something that needs a hurried edit. I like to use this process as a starting point to anything I edit. I look at this initial (or fast) edit in the following four steps:. 3 Story and Plot.
