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Why-Not of the Week: Write a Novel with Thousands of People!

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November is National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo for short). You, along with tons of other enthusiastic and over-caffeinated amateur novelists will be challenged to write a 50k novel in one month.  This means that there is no room for editing, rereading or dilly dallying. You have to kick your internal editor out of your head [...]

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What Are Why-Nots?

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Every creative soul needs a little nudge every now and then.  Whatever it is you create, art, music, poetry or even just dinner, keeping life new and interesting will keep that creative light shining bright.  Most moms at home will tell you that turning the wagon wheels out of the rut in the road can [...]

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Writing a Better Goodnight Moon

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Ah, bedtime. It’s dark outside.  Everyone is fed and clean and (hopefully) winding down at the end of the day.  Our little one is snuggled up in her bed ready for her story.  Its almost time for Mommy to have a little time for herself.  If only I didn’t have to read an odd little [...]

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Learning to Paint Novels

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Before I sat down to write this article I looked up “writing for artists” on Amazon.  My search came back with dozens of books on basic grammar, technical writing and sentence structure for us language impaired visual artists.  This was disappointing.  I wanted to find references on learning styles and creativity that focused on cross [...]

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