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Valerie Miller
- May 2
- 2 min
June and July 2021 Short Story Competitions
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” Douglas Adams I don’t know about you, but I always seem to find a...
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Valerie Miller
- Apr 2
- 3 min
Passionate about Podcasts
Listening to podcast, reading a book, listening to an audiobook and watching films isn't waste of time. It's how somebody becomes wise!...
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Valerie Miller
- Mar 6
- 5 min
What’s in a name?
What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare (Romeo and...
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Valerie Miller
- Feb 5
- 5 min
New beginnings
Every moment is a fresh beginning. T.S. Eliot The new year has started, which means new goals, new habits to build, old habits to break...
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Valerie Miller
- Dec 28, 2020
- 1 min
Australian Women Writers Challenge 2021
The Australian Women Writers Challenge begins again this year on 1 January 2021 and will conclude on 31 December 2021. You can sign up...
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Valerie Miller
- Dec 25, 2020
- 1 min
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas
I will be taking a holiday break. My first post for 2021 will be available on Saturday 7 February. In 2021, a new blog article will...
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Valerie Miller
- Dec 18, 2020
- 5 min
Why a pseudonym?
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It...
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Valerie Miller
- Dec 11, 2020
- 5 min
The Autumn of my Dreams
People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want to be...
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Valerie Miller
- Dec 4, 2020
- 3 min
Twelve Rejections ... coming of age as a writer
I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. Sylvia Plath I read an article about a writer whose goal was to receive 100 rejections in...
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Valerie Miller
- Nov 27, 2020
- 3 min
Miss Muse ... why are you so fickle?
Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll. Helen Hanson Muse. A noun. There...
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Valerie Miller
- Nov 20, 2020
- 3 min
Great first lines that get you hooked
Reading a novel is a journey. A great novel can entice you into a wonderful new world filled with great characters, events and emotions....
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Valerie Miller
- Nov 13, 2020
- 4 min
National Novel Writing Month ... a.k.a NaMoWriMo
There's an old folk saying that goes: whenever you delete a sentence from your NaNoWriMo novel, a NaNoWriMo angel loses its wings and...
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Valerie Miller
- Nov 6, 2020
- 5 min
If you want to do... you have to say yes to no!
You don't find time to write. You make time. Nora Roberts 2020. 20 days. 20 thousand words. I do have an affiliation for numbers that...
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Valerie Miller
- Oct 30, 2020
- 6 min
Short Stories are Big Quests
A short story is a love affair; a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film. Lorrie Moore As an emerging...
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Valerie Miller
- Oct 23, 2020
- 4 min
The Writer’s Community
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. John Donne Throw the confetti. Ring...
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Valerie Miller
- Oct 16, 2020
- 1 min
Writing Milestones ... Quotes to Inspire
I have spent the last three months plotting and planning my first novel. If you have read my past posts, you will know that my original...
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Valerie Miller
- Oct 9, 2020
- 4 min
First Drafts are Messy.
One of the greatest benefits of writing a truly awful, lousy, no good first draft is that it can only get better from there. (Martha...
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Valerie Miller
- Oct 2, 2020
- 4 min
Breaking up with Pantsing and my affair with Plotting.
“Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.” Winston Churchill Are you a Plotter? A Pantser? Or Plantser? These are...
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Valerie Miller
- Sep 25, 2020
- 4 min
Rules of Engagement
I love writing. Playing with words. Creating new characters. Telling stories. Some days it's easy. You sit down and you write. The words...
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