Tag: Writing
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Concept to Broadcast: Producing a Podcast is More Than Just Talk
A Guest Post by Leanne Elliott A few months ago, I did one of those free online boot camps that got me all fired up about becoming a podcaster and I thought, how hard could it be to go from concept to broadcast? With 2.4 million podcasts in the world, and a whopping 75% launching…
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Congratulations Faces
Friends have started sending me snaps of their congratulations faces upon hearing that Douglas Adams’ London hit #1 in the niche category of Hot New Releases in London England Travel Books on Amazon.com.
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Day 5 NaNoWriMo Update
In my day 5 NaNoWriMo update I reflect on “bad habits” I share with my hero, Douglas Adams, and how my current project is circumventing them.
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Bye, Heathrow!
The painful crux of being an untried, unknown, unpublished writer, is that it is hard to get (and harder to trust) feedback. You have to let your words go out into the world without caring who will find them trite and who will find them terrific.
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Peeking Out and Friend-Finding
My time is running out to begin peeking out and friend-finding. To make choices and establish the criteria of what makes people “friends to invite to my 50th birthday.”
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Yvette’s Eastercon 2022 Part 2: Achievements Unlocked!
Part Two is about achievements unlocked, including getting home with only a single whasset.
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Submission
I am back from the UK. Submission in two days. The end of the “??? draft” is nigh. This sort of comment from my Beta Readers (my Angels!) is what is keeping me going…and going…in the wee hours of the early morning: “A+! Though I’ve never read a single literary guide before, and will probably…
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Yvette’s Eastercon 2022 Part 1: Safe Today
Another day, another COVID test. I’m safe today. Each swab is an exercise in staying in the moment, not dwelling on the possibility of upset plans, time and energy ‘wasted’ (that’s my mom’s voice in my head), and hardcore FOMO if it turns out I can’t do all the things I want to do while…