You know when you’ve been stewing for days–nay, weeks, months!–over a particular problem? And you have racked your brain, and you just simply cannot figure out how to get around this plot problem, but you can’t move forward o the project until it’s solved? Totally hate that. But when you’re talking to yourself in the […]
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I have always been a hyper-organized person. At times, I have been accused of being OCD. I cannot function in a messy space, and clutter drives me bonkers. I like things perpendicular, alphabetized, and filed in chronological order. So it’s really ironic that I’ve never in my life outlined a manuscript. Last May I went
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I have been writing novel-length manuscripts since I was in 2nd or 3rd grade. My first novel I creatively titled “Stephanie’s story.” It was about It was a cheesy romance-turned-conversion story that highlighted all my greatest hopes in dreams. In the end, the love interest couple became insanely wealthy and had 14 kids. (I was
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