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The Wellness Diary

Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2023 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

In the book Meditations, Marcus Aurelius writes the name of a person. The person is someone he feels has influenced him. Then he lists the things he learned from that person. You could do that. That’s almost like a personal…

Completing Multiple Projects

Posted on Sunday, May 21, 2023 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

If you are like me, you have several projects in progress. I have these blogs that I write every week. Then I have several completed manuscripts in my revision file. I have a couple that are waiting for final formatting…

Tagged with: project management, Projects, time management, writing, writing projeccts, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques

Meeting Deadlines

Posted on Sunday, May 14, 2023 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

The best tip I have for meeting deadlines is to keep up your self discipline and work on the project every day. Even if it’s only for an hour. You need to work on it. That’s the best way to…

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Meeting Goals

Posted on Sunday, April 30, 2023 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

Goals can be good motivators. They can encourage you to meet them. They can also make you depressed if you don’t make the goals. I’m a Weight Watcher. We have what we call star goals. It’s a way to set…

Tagged with: goal brakdwon, goal setting, goals, setting goals, writing, writing goals, Writing Techniques
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The Importance of Word Choice

Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2023 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

The main tool in a writer’s toolbox is the word. Choosing the right word to do the job is important. You need to be careful to choose the word that works the best in any given situation. There are several…

Tagged with: fiction writing techniques, word choice, word meanings, words, writing
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The What-If Method of Idea Generation

Posted on Sunday, April 16, 2023 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

The what if method of generating story ideas is what it says. You take a fact, ask it what if this happened instead what if that happened? What if America lost the war of independent? What if John Wilkes Booth…

Titles

Posted on Sunday, April 9, 2023 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

Titles are important. They are also hard to come up with. The title is what usually catches a reader’s eye first. Books are often listed by title on websites like Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble. You will see a list…

Tagged with: fiction writing, titles, working titles, writing, Writing Techniques, writing titles
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A Writing To Do List

Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2023 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

If you are like me, you are juggling several writing projects in various stages. I have many chores that I have in a to-do list as well. I use Microsoft’s My Day. I use it because I can access the…

Tagged with: chores list, lists, To-Do List, writing, writing tasks, Writing Techniques, writing to-do
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Scene Descriptions

Posted on Sunday, March 19, 2023 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

Scenes are the building blocks of novels. That makes them important. You pantsers can ignore this blog. I’m talking about plotting a story out. I use a form that I created to do this work. The form has a name,…

When The Words Won’t Come

Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2023 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

This blog is about the dreaded writer’s block. We all suffer from it. Of course we don’t suffer all at the same time, but we do suffer from it. You’ll be writing and without warning. There. Are. No. More. Words.…

Tagged with: fiction writing, scenes, words, writer's block, writing, writing revision, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques