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For those of you embarking on the National Novel Writing Month project, NaNoWriMo, you’ll start out with enthusiasm and excitement…hopefully enough to carry you through thirty days and the end of your opus. Okay, I’m a prolific author. Over the next week or two, I’ll be re-posting eleven tips I’ve compiled over the years.  If you […]

Another post that may help some of you get your novel finished in a month for NaNoWriMo. For most of my career I have used a recorder to dictate my writing; I feel it makes me much more productive.  Here’s an article I wrote on the technique. See if you think it might work for […]

In celebration of National Novel Writing Month, I’m going to re-post some of my previous “kick in the butt” blogs, in hopes you’ll draw some inspiration, get fired up, and move that novel toward the finish line. This one, posted last December, is about my personal-best marathon writing, a full-steam-ahead crash to write my big […]

Everybody knows the movie “A Christmas Story.” My childhood was like that, only around Halloween. I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin, Franksville, population 250, with most of us living out in the country. My parents, my sister, and I lived in a house on Fancher Road, a curved old road that was […]