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Why yes, yes I did! So after the extreme butt-whooping of Lesson 7, after part of a morning of bashing...

Lesson 10 Another inspiring lesson. This week I made my way through a process that let me...

Passed 100 pages Doing well on the Lesson 2 worksheets despite the slow start yesterday. I’m catching on...

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In Preparation of Progress This week I was able to read through my 2nd lesson and the demo that...

Slow start I knew I would be writing only on M-W-F until other commitments are complete.  The...

Happily on target All caught up with my pages, looking forward to completing this lesson tomorrow!...

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One more day. Despite a slow start, I got my quota for today again! I’m at page 195...

Passed 100 pages Doing well on the Lesson 2 worksheets despite the slow start yesterday. I’m catching on...

Eureka and confusion Lesson 11 is taking some time, due to both the complexity of the lesson and...

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Begin again So this week I have made the time to prepare a new undertaking. I got...

Why yes, yes I did! So after the extreme butt-whooping of Lesson 7, after part of a morning of bashing...

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Passed 100 pages Doing well on the Lesson 2 worksheets despite the slow start yesterday. I’m catching on...

Another Beginning This novel is following the ‘Three Act Structure’ commonly used.  The first quarter of the...

I Love My Book Again! Of course when we start writing, we love the idea. Then revising we see everything...

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So, What’s Your Book About? Recovering from a week away for a family wedding, I pulled out Lesson Four again...

Begin again So this week I have made the time to prepare a new undertaking. I got...

Revision begun! So with everything prepped and ready, getting down to the business of revising this morning...

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Less is more? Today I covered less ground in my manuscript than I would have liked, getting through...

Alternate Ending It’s a tricky thing to find the end of a story. My original draft went...

Why yes, yes I did! So after the extreme butt-whooping of Lesson 7, after part of a morning of bashing...

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Lesson 10 Another inspiring lesson. This week I made my way through a process that let me...

One down! Woot! Well, it was fairly grueling but certainly educational to do a first critical read-through of...

Pressing On I think I was over-thinking Lesson 11. Let’s hope that’s what it was! At any...

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Broke 35 000 Well, I’m truly in the final stretch of this novel.  The Great Betrayal has occurred,...

Begin Lesson Three Almost a quarter of the way through Lesson Three, assigning each scene (defined as when...

Lesson 7 is Prodding Buttock An in-depth look at every setting, stage, prop and gimmick in my novel is a...

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I’m Baaack! After a much needed hiatus during December, I’ve begun my new Holly Lisle course, “How...

Begin again So this week I have made the time to prepare a new undertaking. I got...

Huge Lesson 17 is actually applying everything learned to this point to the physical manuscript. This,...

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