Posts Tagged ‘Writing’
Ridonkulously Expensive Books
Posted by: Crystal King on: August 3, 2008
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A lot of the Roman history books that I want to use for my book are extremely costly. Many of them are textbooks so they are often upwards of $75 or more. Drives me crazy.
I was really hoping that being able to download some of them to my Kindle would save me some $$, and [...]
Group Motivation – The Perks of a Writing Group
Posted by: Crystal King on: July 31, 2008
At the beginning of the year I joined up with one of my fellow classmates in the novel-in-progress class that I took last summer, deciding that we would meet up every other week to crit and talk about our books. We added two more lovely women in the last few months and now we have [...]
I’m Still Here. Really. No, Really, I am.
Posted by: Crystal King on: June 23, 2008
What a terrible blogger I have become!!
I go in fits and spurts with my blogging, just with my writing. Why is that? I think about blogging and I think about writing…I incubate both a lot, to tell the truth, but there is just something not as appealing as sitting my ass in the chair and [...]
Status Report
Posted by: Crystal King on: March 18, 2008
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For those of you wondering about my sporadic blogging and where I might be with the novel…
After NANOWRIMO I stalled a bit, mostly because I was trying to figure out if I really wanted to shift the entire POV of my story. I’ve not written in omniscient POV before so I have to admit I [...]
Lingering Motivation
Posted by: Crystal King on: March 8, 2008
I taught today–a class on creative problem solving for writers. It’s a subject that I’m very passionate about and while I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not an expert on craft (POV, dialogue, setting and the like–I need THAT same sort of help myself), but I’m 100% at home on helping people [...]
The Sickness
Posted by: Crystal King on: March 2, 2008
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I wish that I could say it was a writing sickness of some sort, but no, it’s just plain sickness. Second time in less than a month, which makes me quite unhappy indeed. My husband finds my pitiful forlorn-ness rather cute but I’m just not good being miserable.
Being sick also forces me to do something [...]
Can Writing Help You Lose Weight?
Posted by: Crystal King on: February 20, 2008
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Julia Cameron thinks that it can. Her latest book, The Writing Diet–Write Yourself the Right-Size, touts the idea that when you are creative and you focus your efforts on “counting words not calories” that you can also lose weight in the process.
I’m a sucker for:
books on writing
books on creativity
any combination of the above that might [...]
Struggling with POV
Posted by: Crystal King on: January 7, 2008
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I’m about halfway done with the first draft of my Apicius story. I have been feeling pretty darn good about those 50k words…loving the way that it looks printed out into 200 nice white pages. So imagine my chagrin when I received this feedback from my workshop instructor:
I know you’ve struggled a bit with your [...]
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