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How I Write: Revision – How To Begin

by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on July.28.2010

This is the seventh installment in the “HOW I WRITE” series I’m participating in every Wednesday with several writers, where we all discuss how we approach writing a book. Every writer has a different process and this project gives us a chance to share and compare ours. Click on the “How I Write” image to find [...]

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How I Write: Motivation – Getting Through the Middle Pages

by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on July.21.2010

This is the sixth installment in the “HOW I WRITE” series I’m participating in every Wednesday with several writers, where we all discuss how we approach writing a book. Every writer has a different process and this project gives us a chance to share and compare ours. Click on the “How I Write” image to find [...]

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How I Write: The First Draft

by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on July.14.2010

This is the fifth installment in the “HOW I WRITE” series I’m participating in every Wednesday with several writers, where we all discuss how we approach writing a book. Every writer has a different process and this project gives us a chance to share and compare ours. Click on the “How I Write” image to find [...]

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How I Write: Starting a New WIP

by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on July.7.2010

This is the fourth installment in the “HOW I WRITE” series I’m participating in every Wednesday with several writers, where we all discuss how we approach writing a book. Every writer has a different process and this project gives us a chance to share and compare ours. Click on the “How I Write” image to find [...]

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My First Writer’s Conference

by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on April.27.2010

Whew, what a crazy bunch of days last week was! I’m still recovering, and feel as if I am a day or two behind. It’s Tuesday and I’m just now ready to sit down and talk about last week. Within a 7 day span I was out-of- state for a 3-day business trip, back home [...]

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13 Reasons I’m Excited About Spring Fling 2010

by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on April.23.2010

Ha, you know things are hectic when I’m posting a Thursday Thirteen on a Friday. But better a little late than never, right?

Every year, the Chicago-North RWA chapter of Romance Writers of America holds a writer’s conference called Spring Fling. It starts today and ends on Saturday night, I’m going, and I’m giddy with excitement! [...]

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NaNoWriMo is Over!

by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on December.2.2009

December’s here (boy did it arrive fast) and thus November has ended and so has National Novel Writing Month. Here’s how it went for me:
MY STATS
Average writing speed: 600 words per hour
Average hours spent each day: 1 hour
Goal: 50,000 words written
Actual Words Written: 39,700 words and ~14,000 words edited
Result: 1 Novella rough draft completed and [...]

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Last Week of NaNoWriMo

by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on November.24.2009

This is it, the last week of NaNoWriMo! By no means has it been easy, but it has been fun and enlightening. We’re supposed to have around 40,000 words written by now, with just 10k more to go to hit our target of 50k.
Although I am only at around 30,000 words written, I’m feeling pretty [...]

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How Tatiana Got Her Groove Back on NaNoWriMo Day 11

by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on November.12.2009

There’s this piece of advice that is constantly given to aspiring writers, that goes something like “Make yourself write every day”. Or “Just keep writing” they say, and that there’s no such thing as a writer’s block or needing to be in a creative mood to write.
Well, I beg to differ.
For a while there, I [...]

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NaNoWriMo Day 3

by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on November.4.2009

Day 3 was a painful one. I returned to my hotel room mentally and physically drained at 9:30 last night. I did manage to write one page of 302 words before I lost consciousness.
I hope Day 4 will be much more productive. We shall see, eh?
END GOAL: 50,000 words
GRAND TOTAL SO FAR: [...]

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