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Pursuing Your Writing Dreams
Always follow your dreams, especially when it comes to writing! You deserve it. <3
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How to Succeed in 2018
This simple tip will help you succeed in 2018! Now get to work!!
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5 Holiday Travel Tips from your Resident Flight Attendant
Traveling during the holidays? Check out these tips to make things easier, straight from your resident flight attendant!
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Repurpose a Mirror into Your Vision Board!
Repurpose a mirror into your own vision board! $30 to a gorgeous wall hanging. :D
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Let’s Create a NaNoWriMo Cover!
Afternoon, folks! Just because I’m a social media pariah these days doesn’t mean I won’t update Novelarnia! And wouldn’t you know it, WordPress has a cool option to advertise new blog posts without me ever needing to log into Twitter or facebook. Pretty swanky stuff. 😀 So, National Novel Writing Month is right around the corner! Are you participating? For those who said yes, did you know that, according to the NaNo peeps themselves, having a novel cover for NaNo increases your chances of winning by 60%?
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I’m Taking a Sabbatical from Social Media
Hi, folks! Has anyone else noticed the negative trend on social media? Anyone? … Everyone? Me too. It started weighing on me during the pre-election season in 2016, and has only gotten worse. I tried so hard to tailor my Twitter feed simply to writers who talk about writing. They makes me happy. But no matter how often I weeded through my feed, it didn’t last. People have opinions, especially on Twitter. And that’s awesome. Freedom of speech should never be taken for granted. But sometimes you need to take a step back for your own mental health.
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Using A Bullet Journal for NaNoWriMo!
This post talks about using the famous Bullet Journals as a tool for National Novel Writing Month!
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Amazing Prosthetic Videos
I can’t believe I haven’t done a blog post about prosthetics yet. Prosthetics were never really on my mind until two years ago. I work as a flight attendant, and as such, I meet lots of amazing people with lots of unique disabilities. (I use that word very loosely, since as you’ll see below, they’re perfectly able, and some literally outperform those of us with fully organic bodies!) One girl made a difference for me, though. She was maybe 11 years old, and had a prosthetic leg. And although she preboarded, she definitely didn’t need my help getting situated on the airplane. She sat in the front row with her…
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Review: RMFW Colorado Gold Conference
I’m baaaaack! Sorry for missing last week, but I was busy busy busy at Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ Colorado Gold conference. 😀 Quite the mouthful, isn’t it? But woah, it was amazing!!! Let’s talk about the differences between this conference and DFWCon!
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How to Write Faster Without Sacrificing Quality
Write faster without sacrificing quality using these easy tips!
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#PitchWars Does Not Define You!!
Okay. #PitchWars is over. Let’s all breathe a collective sigh of relief, huh? Now, some of you won, but most of you didn’t. Well, you didn’t win in the traditional sense. But if you participated in the hashtag at all, you already know you’re a winner, because you made lots of awesome new friends. Right?
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You Got an Agent Offer… Now What?
So, my last post was stupidly popular, and I’m… I’m honestly not really sure how I’m going to top it. But naturally, I’m going to try by writing a super long, very wordy post!! 😀 Who here knows what happens after you sign with a literary agent? You get The Call. You ask your questions. You graciously thank them for the offer, then request a week or two to think it over. And then you frantically send email after email to any agent already considering your novel (this includes unanswered queries all the way to requested fulls). At the end of your deadline, you weigh the pros and cons of your original…