Tag: writing process
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Submitting My Paintings to the Boston Arts Museum and Writing My Novel
š±Peeko with my white jasmine flower art (not one Iād submitted) Today I entered a couple of my own original paintings into the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Exhibition for Abstract Art. They could accept one or more to display at the Museum, and they would also be up for sale there during that time! […]
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Wellness, Water Hydration, My First Novel, First Week of Full Focus
*The water intake change has really made me feel sufficiently well (the most normal Iāve felt) and not impulsive: I was just drinking water all the time thinking more must be better, but that was very likely washing away medicine and so less effective. While not staying thirsty, I am gradually drinking about 9 cups […]
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Author at Work
Iāve decided to work on my novel each day for about the five day week, myself immersed in the events and characters consistently, toward completion but enjoying this all. Itās in the Fantasy genre, Young Adult. And I am free to skip days. I will be starting a new painting soon, so I can alternate […]
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ā¦with a Love Poem
ā¦wrote a new poem today, starting off January :), it is a tanka poem, and I submitted the poem to a Journal that specifically publishes the tanka form, which is a 5 line poem very much like a haiku. I will let you know if it is published in a few months from now, next […]
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About the Lines You May Edit out of Your Poems
āšyour very own, Peeko Part of revising a poem is often taking out lines that seem like they donāt belong. In a recent poem Iād completed, Iād taken out a whole stanza that involved wrapping the recipient or subject of the poem in a blanketā¦It was a comfy idea, but really felt out of place, […]
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My Short Story Printed and Ready, and an Author from Mississipi
I had started writing my novel, which will be a longer length project, but I have been kind of following my desire and writing poems and this “gift” story in between. As I had written previously that I was writing a “secret story” to be given to someone as a gift at my family’s Christmas […]
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Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
(my own photo) The most moving novel Iāve read this year, and the most recent one Iāve added to my own home library. Song of Solomon (1977) had been a favorite of mine around the year 2004, and somehow I could not remember anything about it at all but that I had read it and […]
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Writing My First Novel, A Glimpse of Thoughts on a Special Object Unnamed
Home now. š Words written by hand tonight in my notebook for this novel, not typed up yet, just a free write that will be rephrased as part of an active scene to be written, which involve two main characters, and how they each feel or react to this same interesting object. I also wrote […]
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A Day in Pictures: A Creative Literary Morning
morning sencha tea, dreaming eyes, letting light into my eyes and face, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847) for later on. after tea, may read Jane Eyre: I partly lived inside this book in my current life and did not remember that?š my novel printed draft so far, first 6 pgs, 3000 words, and handwritten […]
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A Future Poetry Project: Verse
First, I would like to slow down; I realize if I tell about something that the person listening cannot follow, and I often feel sorry to see others overwhelmed with the quickness and excitability of my telling, asking me to retell. I will practice this when I speak with the next person I talk to. […]
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Where?
I am seeing time moving forward in days, weeks, and months, rather than as a single day with few hours, so I just keep writing my novel as much as I would like to each week, and time continues replenishing on its own⦠That leaves me at 2928 words to rest the whole weekend, a […]
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Writing Point of View and Verb Tense in My Novel in Progress
I thought I would keep myself away from my novel today with a thought of taking a little break, but it wasn’t so, I worked on it awhile today, and I am glad I did. One thing I’d found was that any narrator (first, third limited, third omniscient, or second – which addresses the reader […]
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My First Novel in Progress, Finding the Genre and Audience: YA Fantasy, and On āPoint of Viewā
November 15, 2022, night I feel like I have more info now that my story completed could fit into the popular Fantasy genre for Young Adults. I wrote about 200 words tonight typed, and I am going to rest awhile at 2328 words total. š I read my typed draft, then I wrote at the […]
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NaNo More
I just got in from a walk a little while ago before I had lunch. Itās literary salon Tuesday :), I wrote more of my novel draft this morning; I find the Word Count actually is very helpful for pacing. In a long work of fiction, events can happen more slowly than one may be […]
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candy
last night I picked out candy vanilla and strawberry softly chewy ice cream cones in glitter I could taste Jade
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A List of Art and Writing, Plans, Dreams, and Hopes while Currently Sitting
* I hope my hair will continue to grow a little longer; I am mindful of the ends now, and gentle detangling, comb and brush. * I am content sitting now, my feet donāt touch the floor but freely I swing them up, can stretch and flex them well like this, posture is great with […]
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So Begins Chapter Two, and Writing Together in Massachusetts
Friday, FEATURED This one is black tea with almond milk, afterwards Another morning of green tea (gyokuru) followed by writing my novel, this time I wrote my draft of Chapter Two, but I feel that this chapter will still continue after the point that I stopped at at 1305 words today when I continue writing […]
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NaNoWriMoā¦Which Fictionās A Go?
NaNoWrimo stands for national novel writing month which takes place in November. Writers can choose to write short stories, essays, a novel, or poetry for the month. Apart from the official guidelines, I will āwinā no matter the word count but will check word count a little further along, am mainly using the site to […]
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A Paintbrush and a Novel
I will begin writing my first novel and painting for my next art show Iād like to have, so the blog pace will slow (of course it needs to ;), but the site will be open, about painting and my novel in progress, and more.āBut I am currently writing a short story, and I may […]