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November 2, 2020

National Novel Writing Month 2020

It’s November, a month that inspires both terror and excitement in writers everywhere. Each November, I reminisce on my first attempt at National Novel Writing Month, in which I hand-wrote my first real draft of a novel. It told a sweet story of personal growth, literary love, and quirky community, and I fondly remember that Continue reading

literary living

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November 4, 2017

Non-Writing Writer

I was inspired this morning as I walked to practice piano for an upcoming recital… this would have been great, had I been inspired to practice. Rather, I was inspired to set the opening of Wordsworth’s The Prelude to music. My roommate (bless her) stopped me just in time: “Ryanne, if you write a melody and Continue reading

humor, Poetry

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August 14, 2016

Reflections on Writing a Novel Draft

During my journey home from Italy, I was super bored and, thus, my brain went crazy and came up with a novel idea that I am ridiculously excited about. Thankfully, I hit 50,000 words on my other novel draft, so I was able to set that one aside without too much guilt to begin this Continue reading

Musings, Scribblings

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July 11, 2016

Writing Victories

Just had to brag a little bit: Today marks the two-year birthday of my baby novel. On this day in 2014, I was inspired to write a book about a quirky little town that I stumbled upon and, to my delight, today I reached the word count required for my manuscript to qualify as a Continue reading

Scribblings

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March 13, 2015

A Caution to Writers

Dear fellow writers, Should you ever decide to change perspective halfway through your novel’s draft, do not use Word’s “Find and Replace” feature because otherwise when you try to change “I” (the pronoun) to your character’s name (Paige, in this instance), you might find every letter “I” replaced with her name. Oops. That Paiges a serPaigeous Continue reading

Scribblings

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November 27, 2014

NaNoWriMo Problem #5

Changing point of view halfway through. :/ Continue reading

Scribblings

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November 11, 2014

NaNoWriMo Problem #4

Social media. “Look at how many words I’ve written! Oh wait…those are pins…How did I get on Pinterest?” Continue reading

Scribblings

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November 10, 2014

NaNoWriMo Problem #3

Writing a single page and expecting your word could to skyrocket. Continue reading

Scribblings

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November 10, 2014

NaNoWriMo Problem #2

Feeling like you’re living two lives: one inside your story and one in the world. (Bonus problem: the fictional story feels more real.) Continue reading

Scribblings

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November 8, 2014

Occupational Hazards

My first National Novel Writing Month and I’m almost to the 8,000 word mark! So far I’ve only faced mild writer’s block, major inkstains, and a few hand cramps, but I supposed I can consider those occupational hazards. :) Continue reading

Scribblings

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