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Category Archives: Writing
A COVER REVEAL AND A PLAYLIST
You and Me and Us is about seven months away from officially being out in the world, and things are slowly starting to feel real! Last week, I revealed the cover, a brief synopsis and my very first blurb on … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Music, publishing, Writing, You and Me and Us
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ACCOUNTABILITY: THE UNSEXIEST WORD IN WRITING
(NOTE: This post originally ran as an article in WRITE ON!, a quarterly magazine published by the Women’s Fiction Writers Association) Fifteen years. That’s how long it took to finish writing the first draft of my first novel. Crazy, right? … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Process, Fiction, publishing, Writing
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I’M NOT A SONGWRITER, BUT I HELPED WRITE A SONG.
I have written a lot of things in my writer-life. I’ve written three novels, a handful of poems, countless billboards, print ads, tv and radio commercials, emails, direct mail, twitter posts. You name it, I’ve written it. But there was … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Process, Music, Writing
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ADVENTURES IN QUERYING—HOW I GOT MY AGENT, PART TWO
If you’re just joining us, start here to get the full impact of how long and crazy the querying process can be. For everyone else, the story picks up in June 2017 after more than a year of querying my … Continue reading
Posted in agent, Fiction, Writing
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WHOOPS, I DID IT AGAIN.
Last fall, I participated in NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, where thousands of writers around the world take on the challenge of writing 50,000 words in thirty days. I wrote a few posts about the beginning, the middle and the … Continue reading
Posted in Editing, NANOWRIMO, Uncategorized, Writing
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HURTS SO GOOD: USING CRITIQUES TO MAKE YOUR WORK STRONGER.
Writing a novel couldn’t be more different than writing an ad. Or so I thought. In the last few weeks, I’ve realized just how much the lessons I’ve learned throughout my advertising career have been helping me in my latest … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Creative Process, Editing, Fiction, Writing
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THE CONFERENCE REPORT: CLEVELAND
In the ad-world, conference reports usually fall on the shoulders of the account team, but since this was a writing conference—I figured I would give it a shot! Last summer, after finishing what I thought was the final draft of … Continue reading
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