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Monday Musings #3
June 18, 2012
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Every Monday, I will post a quick recap of last week’s events. Feel free to join and/or link your own recap! Writing. I reached 30k in Reflected (Mirrorland #2). This is the middle part of the story, and as usually, things are getting tough just about now. I always have trouble gettin
Continue Reading →All these villains…
June 13, 2012
This post is inspired by a thread on AbsoluteWrite talking about antagonists. The thread actually got me thinking more about the antagonists in my current WIP and I’m amazed. Why? Because I have so many! Warning: This post will be rather vague, with mentions of MC1, MC2 and A1 (
Continue Reading →Monday Musings #2
June 11, 2012
Every Monday, I will post a quick recap of last week’s events. Feel free to join and/or link your own recap! Writing: I reached 25k words in Reflected (Mirrorland #2). Reflected is this year’s CampNaNoWriMo manuscript, so I’m already halfway through Camp NaNoWriMo. Y
Continue Reading →I don’t write Mary Sue characters! YAY.
June 07, 2012
Guess what everyone? I don’t write Mary Sue characters. YAY. You’re probably asking the what, why, who and how of this random statement. Between studying Labor Law and Family Law, I decided to take the Original Fiction Mary Sue Test. Why? I was studying Labor and Family La
Continue Reading →YA Story Analyzer Tool
June 06, 2012
Today I want to introduce you to a nifty tool for all young adult and MG writers out there: the YA Story Analyzer Tool. It’s free to use and it checks your manuscript for average sentence length, reading level, redundant phrases and sentences, cliché words, wordy sentences and u
Continue Reading →Monday Musings #1
June 04, 2012
Every Monday, I will post a quick recap of the past week’s event. Feel free to join! Writing: I started on Reflected (Mirrorland #2), which is my WIP for this year’s CampNaNoWriMo June. I’m already at 15k words, which is great. I hope to finish it soon. Editing: Afte
Continue Reading →Camp NaNoWriMo June #1: Marathon to 10k words.
June 02, 2012
I challenged myself yesterday to reach 10k words on the first day of Camp NaNoWriMo. Guess what? I succeeded. The first 10k words is done, and I feel happy, releived, pleased and a lot more. I hope to reach 15k today, but that would probably be wishful thinking. At this pace, I’
Continue Reading →Monthly Goals: June 2012
June 01, 2012
Hey, everyone! Can you believe it’s June already? Time really does fly! I don’t know about you, but I’m participating in Camp NaNoWriMo and I invite you to participate as well. It’ll be fun. This is my first time camping (to be honest, I’ve never gone cam
Continue Reading →Expanding My Horizon
May 31, 2012
I’ve always been a bit peculiar, to be honest. When I was a young kid, I skipped chapter books to get started on middle grade right away. I quickly brushed past middle grade, skipped young adult and ended up in adult territory. By the time I had reached age twelve, I was reading
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