Tag: fiction
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My Novel Christmas Party
By Patricia Zick @PCZick I love Jae over at Lit and Scribbles. She always has inspiring posts such as her recent Novel Christmas Party. Today, I’m throwing a Novel Christmas Party for my novel Live from the Road. Question: What Christmas carol best describes Live from the Road and why? Answer: Grandma Got Run over…
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Another Giveaway – Wishing for Summer
Laurie’s Thoughts and Reviews is sponsoring the Dreaming of Summer Blog Hop, now through December 2. The blog hop is hosted by Me, My Shelf and I and I am a reader not a writer. There are ten giveaways (including Live from the Road, kindle version.) Drop by Laurie’s blog and discover some new writers…
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Editing – Smoothing the Cement
By Patricia Zick @PCZick This past week, I finished the edits on my third or fourth draft of my new novel Trails in the Sand. I sent it off to my editor, Kathleen Heady, so she can weave her magic on the manuscript. When she returns it, I’ll go through her suggestions and then ready…
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What I Like – Writing Pleasures
By Patricia Zick @PCZick Jae over at Lit and scribbles blog gave me the idea for this blog when she began posting about things she likes in her writing life. So here’s what I like about my writing life. I like the accoutrements of writing, which means I keep the office supply store near me…
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Here’s How I Write
By Patricia Zick @PCZick Shannon A. Thompson, a fellow blogger, gave me the idea for this post. I liked learning about Shannon’s methods and choices during her writing day so I thought some of you might find my process interesting. I’m hoping others of you will write a post and answer these questions as well.…
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A Second Look at the First Chapter
By Patricia Zick @PCZick One of my fellow bloggers at eternal Domination gave me this idea for a first “look” at my current work. His post Kool Challenge: Look Back at Look gave credit to the blog Read Tom Lucas for this idea. I decided to follow and do the same thing, and I hope…
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2,000 Words a Day and Dirty Laundry
By Patricia Zick @PCZick One of my fellow bloggers, Doug Oldfield posted on his Writing Fiction Blog reminded me that November starts the National Novel Writing Month or as it’s more affectionately known NaNoWriMo. The goal is for authors to write 50,000 words on a novel during the month of November. A novel averages 80,000-100,000…
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Week 18: The Next Big Thing Blog Hop
By Patricia Zick @PCZick I’m participating in my first blog hop, and I hope you’ll join me on this journey as we blog hop our way through some new reads. A blog hop gives readers an opportunity to find some wonderful authors you might have missed. Be sure to follow our blog hop and be…
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The Wise Writer Does Not Make the Oprah Angry
By Patricia Zick @PCZick When I began my writing career, somewhere in the back on my mind I still held the romantic vision of myself typing on a manual typewriter lost all day in the world I would create on the page. If only. When my first novel came out in 2000, my publisher wrote…
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Revising – Dread then Joy
By Patricia Zick @PCZick I finished the second draft of my new novel Trails in the Sand before leaving on a trip to Denver two weeks ago. I like to have deadlines like that because once you leave a novel for a few days, it’s almost like starting over again. Since the incubation period is a…
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