What have I been reading lately? Here are a few things I’ve read recently along with a few of my thoughts on each work.
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7 Things I Learned Drafting My Manuscript
Earlier this year, I finished drafting my manuscript. It was a long process to finish that first draft. But I learned a lot along the way. Here are my take-aways.
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5 Books that Taught Me How to Write
Over the past several years, my writing has drastically improved. One of the things that has helped my writing get better is books on writing. So, here are five books that have taught me how to craft better stories.
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Book Review: May Day by Gretchen Marquette
Overview
May Day is an intimate examination of the narrator’s life. Gretchen Marquette takes events in her life, finds the larger, abstract part of the human condition the event relates to, and focuses on big issues that all humans can relate to like love and loss.
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Grammar
Love it or hate it, grammar is something that every person who writes anything has to deal with.
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This Thing We Call Writer’s Block
I once heard a writer say that he never gets writer’s block; he claims he always has ideas. Maybe I am misinterpreting what this author was saying, but I can’t help but disagree with what I think his meaning was. Aside from sounding highly pretentious, he didn’t seem to totally understand what exactly writer’s block is—at least by my definition of writer’s block (which may or may not be accurate).
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The Shelf
As a reader, I have come across a fair few books and other written materials that I have found helpful or “good” in some capacity or another. Here is the compiled list. I will also put this into a separate page titled “The Shelf” and will be adding to this list over time.
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Book Beginnings
How a book begins is crucial. The first few pages determine whether a reader will continue reading or move on to a new book. After reading lots, I have discovered certain things that repel me from a book and certain things that attract me to a book.
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So it begins…
And so here I am. One writer. One reader. One story receiver. One storyteller.
And here it begins.
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