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Your Annual Goals List

Last time I blogged about your “Hopes and Dreams” file. Hopes and dreams are great things. But they aren’t enough. None of them will ever happen unless you translate them into something a bit more...

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Finding Time To Do It All as a Novelist

David posted this question on my “Ask A Question For My Blog” page: If an unpublished writer, with a completed and polished but still unsold novel, and maybe more novels (and some non-fiction ideas) in...

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Should You Start Writing Fiction First?

Bill posted this question on my “Ask A Question For My Blog” page: Well I think I am ready to get started. I purchased your book to day and downloaded the Snowflake software. I was also a system...

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Ain’t Got Good Grammar?

Can you get a novel published if your grammar ain’t no good? That’s a good question and it deserves a better answer than a mere “yes” or “no.” Elizabeth posted this question on my “Ask A Question For...

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Writing Fiction When Chaos Strikes Your Life

How do you keep writing when chaos strikes your life? When everything is suddenly different? When you feel like you’ve lost your rhythm? Isaiah posted this question on my “Ask A Question For My Blog”...

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Smashing The Fiction Writing Bottleneck

So you’re writing about six different novels all at the same time and none of them are getting done and you just can’t decide which to work on next. What do you do? Katya posted this question on my...

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What If You’re Not a Strong Finisher?

What if you’re too creative? What if you never finish anything because you keep getting new ideas that excite you more than the one you’re working on? What if you’re a good starter, but not a strong...

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Crash-Proofing Your Novel

What do you do if your computer crashes and you lose your entire novel? That would be bad. That would be horrible.  That should never happen, but it does happen to some writers every year. And once a...

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How to Make an Action Plan

Nothing happens unless you take action.  But you don’t want to take random, chaotic actions.  You want to take intentional actions toward some goal. To do that, you need an Action Plan.  One problem...

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What to Do When You’re Overwhelmed

Modern life forces you to make impossible choices. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by all the stuff that needs doing. When you get overwhelmed, your anxiety level rises, you lose traction, you get even...

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