Tag: writing
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Six Weeks into 2013 – Goal Check
By Patricia Zick @PCZick At the beginning of the year, I posted my goals for 2013. I thought I’d check the goals and see where I stand six weeks later with forty-six weeks left. It’s appropriate now because in the past month, I’ve felt as if I’m coming out of the learning curve fog. I’m…
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The Next Big Thing Blog Hop
By Patricia Zick @PCZick Author Lynn Thompson http://www.lynnthompsonbooks.com asked if I’d participate in the Next Big Thing Blog Hop! Since I launched my Next Big Thing Novel (Trails in the Sand) yesterday, January 30, it seemed quite appropriate to participate in my second blog hop. This blog hop requires me to answer ten questions about…
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A Hemingway Feast
By Patricia Zick @PCZick Confession time: I’ve never been a great fan of Ernest Hemingway’s writing. It leaves me cold. That’s not to say he isn’t a brilliant writer; I’m only saying his style of writing is not my favorite. I go more for Fitzgerald and Steinbeck. Nonetheless, I longed to read A Moveable Feast,…
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Writing Goals for 2013
By Patricia Zick @PCZick As the new year approaches, I’m thinking about what I want to accomplish in 2013 as an author. Perhaps if I share these goals here in a public forum there will be more chance of keeping them. I’m writing this post from the road in Florida. I’ll return home on New…
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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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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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