Tag: Writing
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It’s Official!
Wandering Soul is now the first of “The Summer Park Psychics” series! Samhain Publishing and the lovely and talented Holly Atkinson will be working with me on the sequel. I’m so excited to share it with you! …In 2016 🙂 You can pre-order Wandering Soul on Amazon.com now so that you don’t miss it when…
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Patience—Revisited
One of the skills I’ve been really building lately is patience. Every step of the way in the publishing process, waiting is involved. Get an idea. Patiently type out each word until the book is done. Set it aside, even though you want to edit it NOWNOWNOW. Realize edits will take much longer than you…
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Thick Skins
I have been blessed by having friends with very differing tastes in books. Some of them love romance novels and some don’t. I’ve had friends with both outlooks beta-read my works, and all their feedback has been helpful on my path. The ones who read romance have a wealth of knowledge about the genre. The…
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Adaptation
I love Oxford commas. I really do. On the printed page, they help my brain process the words I’m reading. In official correspondence, they help to make my meaning absolutely clear. In an ebook? They can really slow things down. That doesn’t mean I can just skip the commas and hope for the best. It…
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The Best Laid Plans
It’s always fun to go back through my blog posts and see how I thought I had things all figured out. “This is how I’m going to edit from now on!” “I’m going to finish this project next, no matter what!” The truth is life is in constant flux. And if you’re pursuing a creative…
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First Drafts
I just finished the first draft of another full-length novel. Toward the end, I could see that I wasn’t going to make my projected word count. It wasn’t that any particular chapter was too short. Most of the chapters came in right about where I would expect—a good sign that the book is balanced and…
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Writing Time
Since I received The Call, my writing time has changed. It took me a few months to figure out what happened, but I wasn’t making my word count goals and I felt my attention had been split in ways I didn’t yet understand. Now that I’m farther along in the process, I’ve had some very…
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Living Fully
My life is incredibly full right now. This might be the way it will always be—my new normal. If so, I will consider myself extremely fortunate. It isn’t easy to keep up with everything. My house, family, job, health, friends, and of course my writing, all require a great deal of time, attention, and energy.…
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What to Do During Edits
I’ve written several blog posts about whether to write new material or not during edits. Now that official edits for Wandering Soul have begun, I’ve realized two things: This is my first experience with traditional publishing, therefore I really have no way of predicting what is going to happen or how publishing a book will…
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Sleep is Over-rated… but Necessary
It’s so hard to stop writing on those nights when the words are flowing and everything seems to be coming together almost effortlessly. Too many of those nights in a row can actually become a problem. There are things I need to take care of to keep writing. My home, my family, my health. Sleep…
Cassandra Chandler 