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Managing Your Writing Time

Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2022 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

If you are like me, you are juggling a lot of ideas, written drafts, brainstorming, and other writing tasks. You may feel as though there isn’t enough time to deal with it all. It is easy to manage your tasks…

Creating Believable Characters

Posted on Sunday, November 20, 2022 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

Characters can be fun to create. You want your heroes to be heroic and your villains to be villainous. Right? Of course. In the real world, though, no one is all good or all bad. Humans are a mixture of…

Tagged with: character creation, character traits, characterization, characters, writing, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques

Affectation

Posted on Sunday, November 13, 2022 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

Look up the word Affectation in the dictionary. You will find it is “behavior, speech, or writing that is artificial and designed to impress.” In other words, it doesn’t sound a like a real person. That’s fine if you want…

Tagged with: writing, writing formal, writing pomposity, Writing Techniques
Posted in personal essay, Writing Techniques

Feline Freedom League November Report

Posted on Sunday, November 6, 2022 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

From: Agent WinnieTo: Mr. WhiskersDate: 6 November 2022Subject: Mission ReportAgent Zoe is not happy that you gave the Senior Agent position to Agent Probie. She keeps asking me why I’m not disappointed. I have tried to make her realize that…

Tagged with: Cat, Cat Fiction, cats, feline, Feline Fiction, Feline Freedom League, fiction
Posted in Feline Freedom League Report

NaNoWriMo

Posted on Sunday, October 30, 2022 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

It’s that time of the year again. It’s almost November and that means NaNoWriMo. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s a writing challenge that takes place every November. The challenge sounds simple. Write a fifty-thousand-word…

Tagged with: authors, nanowrimo, writing, writing challenge, writing goals, writing word goals
Posted in Writing Techniques

Writing Trackers

Posted on Sunday, October 23, 2022 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

Last week, I talked about having a writing schedule. I gave some benefits to having one. This week, I’m going to talk about another benefit of having such a schedule is that it helps you to track your projects. It’s…

Tagged with: writing, writing business, Writing Techniques, Writing Tools, writing trackers
Posted in Writing Techniques

The Writing Schedule

Posted on Sunday, October 16, 2022 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

Writing schedules are a good idea when you have more than one work in progress. Having many pieces in progress is the norm for me. I have some that I’m planning, some that I’m writing and a lot that I…

Tagged with: project management, schedules, writing, writing organization, writing schedules, writing time, Writing Tools
Posted in Writing Techniques

Looping

Posted on Sunday, October 9, 2022 by pebblepup — 1 Comment

Looping is a variation on free writing. You sit down and write for at least ten minutes. Write without thinking. Don’t edit as you go. Write as fast as you can. That’s all you do for free writing. Looping takes…

Tagged with: brainstorming, brainstorming methods, Idea generation, looping, writing, Writing Techniques
Posted in Writing Techniques

Feline Freedom League October Report

Posted on Sunday, October 2, 2022 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

From: Agent ProbieTo: Mr. WhiskersDate: 2 October 2022Subject: Mission ReportThank you for the vote of confidence and the updated training materials. I wish I could say Agent Zoe accepted your decision right away, but it took a couple of weeks…

Tagged with: Cat, Cat Fiction, cats, feline, Feline Fiction, Feline Freedom League, fiction
Posted in Feline Freedom League Report

Brainstorming Tools: The Journal

Posted on Sunday, September 25, 2022 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

If you are like me, you keep a journal. Most writers do. I use mine for a lot of things. It records my thoughts. It lets me write drafts of stories, notes on various aspects of stories and characters. It’s…