novel

  • I started my first novel when I was eighteen. Thirty years later, where am I now?

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  • Novels are a collection of ideas and images and characters and philosophies and stories, all twisted up in a blender until all the bits come together into a coherent series of words that we recognize as a book. These words then get wrapped up in their cover like a Christmas present, with shiny and colorful […]

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  • Thanks to a colleague’s suggestion, this year I took the NaNoWriMo plunge. With less than a month to fashion the concept of a novel, I signed up, drank the koolaid, and jumped off the cliff. I’ve been writing fiction since grade school, but only in November 2013 did I really start to think of myself […]

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