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The Emily Books

Posted in Creative Process of Writing, Life, Writing, reading, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Well, rather than editing, I finished Emily’s Quest, by Lucy Maud Montgomery, tonight. 
I, like so many other women, grew up with the Anne of Green Gables series of books. Or rather, they grew up with me. I’ve read them all, most of them multiple times. As I grew up, different books spoke to me, as [...]

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Creating stories out of characters (AKA, when I grow up, I want to be Maeve Binchy)

Posted in reading, tagged , , , on December 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »

(I totally stole the alternate title of this post from one of my commenters…)
I love Maeve Binchy, and have for many years now. Probably since I was about 15 or 16. I’ve read Scarlet Feather more times than I can count, and Tara Road almost as frequently. She creates these wonderful communities filled with interesting [...]

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A day off…

Posted in Creative Process of Writing, Writing, reading, tagged , , , , on December 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Yesterday was a long, long day. And it came after a string of long days. Meh. This morning, therefore, I spent my time doing absolutely nothing on my “to do” list, and instead, sat and read and snuggled with Skittles.
Am feeling somewhat more refreshed now, but I still seem to not want to do anything. [...]

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Ending-ish

Posted in Dexter Moon, NaNoWriMo, Writing, tagged , , on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Thinking about endings today. Particularly, my ending.
I did, by the way, write almost exactly 2,000 words yesterday. And in the process, crossed 45,000!
And then came home, and felt miserable, and spent the rest of the day and evening reading Maeve Binchy. (Who is one of my favorite authors, actually, and I plan on writing a [...]

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