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Category: novels
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POWER POSITIONS IN PROSE: Niloufar-Lily Soltani’s ZULAIKHA
I met Lily Soltani at the Robson Indigo bookstore this past weekend, where she was doing a book signing. In fact, I was the first to get a signed copy… I cracked open the cover, began to read, and quickly discovered what the publisher, Inanna, must have noticed when they selected this book for publication;…
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Nanowrimo: The Final Week? And I’m Stuck? What can I do?
NANOWRIMO: FINAL WEEK! So it’s the final week of Nanowrimo, and you find you’re stuck. I mean STUCK…like… STUCK like… but really, more like… WHAT CAN YOU DO? Try a few of the following on for size… Did you leave any gaps? Any chapters unfinished? Go back and flesh them out! The beginning of…
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Nanowrimo Weeks two and three: Conflict and complication!
The Middle of Your Novel If you divide your novel into three parts, the beginning is roughly a quarter of your book. That should be over now, after the first week of Nano. The middle is roughly half your book, and that’s where we are now. That means that it’s time for what really drives…
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Nanowrimo reminder–courtesy of Mary E. Pearson, on Twitter!
BANG WORDS OUT (instead of tiring, editing the same words over and over) I love how straightforward this button makes the process seem. Don’t worry if you have to go back and fix a few things–that’s what editing is for…AFTER you have a completed manuscript. Let me show you… The former me: Type a…
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Nanowrimo: Week One Survival Strategy
NANOWRIMO Week #1 : Out of the gate fast, but hold the reins! Ok, so it’s day one of week one of Nanowrimo, National Novel Writing Month, and if you’re going to survive the onslaught, you need to be smart about it. The first part is simple, and most have no trouble with it. You…
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Step 7 of Nanowrimo Planning: Your Shopping List!
STEP SEVEN: YOUR SHOPPING LIST If people have quite a few groceries to buy, they make a shopping list. Now, you don’t have “a few things” to do with your novel—you’re going to be filling hundreds of pages. You make a shopping list to make sure you have enough food and don’t forget anything.…
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Step 6 of Nanowrimo Planning: Time to Get Real!
STEP SIX: TIME TO … Build and expand, build and expand . . . . Remember those five sentences you wrote in step two that you made into five paragraphs in step five? Well, we’re going to expand each of those to a page each…with a twist. We’re going to write what…