We generally spend January talking about revision at Routines for Writers. After all the holidays are over, it seems like a good time to take another look at what you wrote during National Novel Writing Month and figure out what to do next. But I’m starting the next stage of revisions on my superhero novel [...]

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My personality leads me to prefer being proactive rather than reactive whenever possible. It’s the difference between working on something every day and/or setting aside blocks of time and getting it done, or sitting at the kitchen table in tears the night before a project is due and hearing someone tell me, “Bird by bird, [...]

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  One of my dreams as an author is to create a beloved character. My own Anne Shirley or Nancy Drew. A Sara Crewe or Laura Ingalls.   My all-time favorite story character is Anne Shirley. One summer when I was eight years old, bored and sitting on a yellow plastic deck chair by the [...]

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