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Looking back at 2013…

It’s New Year’s eve and tomorrow we all get clean slates. But before we guzzle the champagne and resolve to write ten books this year, I think we ought to look back at all that we’ve accomplished in 2013. Trust me, I bet you’ve done more than you think you have. For me, 2013 has…

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The NaNoWriMo Challenge

I’ve always been one of those people who’s turned up her nose at NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). The thought of pumping out 50,000 words in one month seems like an exercise in typing, in quantity, in well … producing crap! Sure, Hemingway said that “the first draft of anything is crap,” and Anne Lamott…

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