Some quick fun laughs today for children’s book authors. Jerry Seltzer offers an inspired comic strip just for us: Tori Stellar: Children’s Book Author. I love the fourth one down with the children’s fan letter. Hilarious. Also, on cute and funny things, I posted a picture of my Newtie into yesterday’s post. I miss him terribly, but he’s…
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Sorry that I’ve been absent from this blog for most of this week. I’ve been absent from most things. My husband and I had a loss Wednesday morning when our dog passed away. It was quick, which was a good thing, but it was a terrible shock for us. My husband and I don’t have children yet,…
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I was going to do something writer-related this morning, I really was. Then I glanced at my Google Reader and saw a cool post on A Writer’s Edge about the blog participating in Blog Action Day. I watched the YouTube video (see below) and thought, Cool! I want to do that. Next I went to…
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Today we have an interview with author Paul Maurice Martin, whose non-fiction book Original Faith: What Your Life Is Trying to Tell You came out last year. Paul has a wonderful story about writing while overcoming illness. Thanks for being on DayByDayWriter today, Paul, and congratulations on your book. Please tell us a little about Original Faith…
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Typing The End after spending months or even years writing a book is an exciting, thrilling thing. But when it’s done, what do you do? After celebrating with a nice dinner and good bottle of wine, if you’re like me, you want to scroll all the way back up to page 1 and start revising.…
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Wow, it feels weird to not put a word count up here. I’m feeling at a bit of a loss today, with no characters or story rolling around in my head. Will just have to think of a new story to occupy my brain before I start my revisions. 🙂 In the meantime, a friend…
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Current word count: 46,781 New words written: 2,530 Words til goal: 0 DONE! I’m done! Finished. Complete. The end. It was a great moment, typing The End after my last sentence. I enjoyed it for about 45 seconds, then opened another Word document and started typing notes on all the things I have to revise. 🙂 Part of…
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Current word count: 44,261 New words written: 1,553 Words til goal: 0 / ? words a day til the end of September I finish Got through most of the story climax today. Just have one more adventure part then the final wrap up chapter. I will DEFINITELY be finished by the end of the this week, I think. 🙂…
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Current word count: 42,708 New words written: 2,937 Words til goal: 0 / ? words a day til the end of September I finish Finally, I’m back on track. And I’ve passed my 40K goal for the book — but I haven’t finished the book. As expected, the novel is coming in longer than 40K. I’m guessing it will…
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Current word count: 39,771 New words written: 664 Words til goal: 229 / 19 words a day til the end of September Yay! I finally got up and wrote this morning, and it feels good. I feel so much better when I’m writing. I’m so close to my goal of 40K now, but still two chapters away from the…
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