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 G Miller
- Nov 21, 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 G Miller
- Nov 14, 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 G Miller
- Nov 7, 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 G Miller
- Oct 31, 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 G Miller
- Oct 24, 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 G Miller
- Oct 17, 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 G Miller
- Oct 10, 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 G Miller
- Oct 3, 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 G Miller
- Sep 26, 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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Valerie G Miller
- Sep 19, 2020
- 5 min
Virtually connected
I have been telling stories all my life. My mum told me that before I could read, I would look at picture books and make up my own...
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Valerie G Miller
- Sep 12, 2020
- 3 min
A little bookshelf in the corner of my world
Hello, my name is Valerie and I am a book addict. I love to read. My reading is my professional development as an emerging writer. I know...
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Valerie G Miller
- Sep 5, 2020
- 5 min
The magic of character bibles
You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader. Nancy Kress Stories need captivating and complex characters...
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Valerie G Miller
- Aug 29, 2020
- 4 min
Notes on an Emerging Writer ... it’s begun
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Writing is...
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Valerie G Miller
- Aug 22, 2020
- 4 min
The Writing Craft: The books to read
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” Stephen King I am an avid reader who...
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Valerie G Miller
- Aug 15, 2020
- 3 min
Time to Write
The first sentence can't be written until the final sentence is written. Joyce Carol Oates I have a dream. To be published. To hold my...
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Valerie G Miller
- Aug 8, 2020
- 3 min
Writing Rituals
I always wrote as a kid. I used to create stories, with illustrations, in old exercise books. At the end of the school year, I would...
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Valerie G Miller
- Aug 1, 2020
- 2 min
Noteable Moments
I have always loved notebooks. I particularly adore the pretty ones with little phrases embossed on the front. I have collected a neat...
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Valerie G Miller
- Jul 25, 2020
- 1 min
A little quote goes a long way
I am a lover of quotes. I collect them. I use them as a teacher, as a writer, as a mother. I am pretty certain that most people feel the...
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Valerie G Miller
- Jul 18, 2020
- 3 min
Oh, darkness be my friend
Thomas Hardy, ‘The Darkling Thrush’. At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead, In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited....
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