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Sometimes You Just Need to Get Out of Your Own Way

Sometimes You Just Need to Get Out of Your Own Way

Posted on June 1, 2021June 1, 2021 by Constance

Now and then I need a boot in the ass and just get out of my own way. I thought I stalled out on writing my next book as I fine-tuned the previous one. And figured out how to write a query letter. A synopsis. A pitch for Twitter. An interpretive dance of my main…

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My WIPs Get an Intervention

Posted on March 27, 2021March 27, 2021 by Constance

Confronting Your Works In Progress As it often happens with me, once I start writing, the writing takes over. Because I began a new Urban Fantasy and got engrossed in the Work In Progress (WIP), Poetry came pounding on the door snarling “What about me? I got ideas too, you know.” So I’d scramble to…

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Finished and Starting Again

Finished and Starting Again

Posted on February 27, 2021February 27, 2021 by Constance

I finished my Urban Fantasy novel a couple of months ago, and incorporated some beta reader comments, cut 8000 words, tweaked grammar. All the things you need to do to finish and finalize. Finished, finished, finished. Awesome, right? Now it sits as the query letter is being smoothed over. Comp titles are a bit flummoxing….

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resolution

Reading, Writing, and Resolution

Posted on January 10, 2021January 10, 2021 by Constance

Now that we’re safely past the end of the year wrap-ups and new year resolution posts, I can move on without obsessing over either. Well, okay, just a little obsession. There were no end of year lists or greatest hits for me. I don’t have anything to recount. I listened to older music, read a…

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Piccola Poesie A Nibble of 100 Short Form Poems
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