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The Value of Writing Slowly

November 28, 2012 by Jamie

As writers around the world finish up the last few days of NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, I find myself considering the value of slowing down rather than speeding up during the writing process. For those not familiar with this annual November event, NaNoWriMo challenges writers to write an entire 50,000 word first draft of a novel in one month. That’s a lot of writing, but not impossible. I have always been a fast-draft writer, and thanks to various […]

Categories: Advice for Writers, Creativity, Time Management • Tags: creative process, creativity, editing, Fast Drafting, first draft, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, revision process, writer, writing, writing life, writing routine

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Reading Aloud

February 20, 2012 by Jamie

Until I had kids, I didn’t do any reading out loud. Now I do it every day. Mostly, the books we read are stories I’ve pre-selected for quality, and they work well when read to an audience, but occasionally, we come across one that I haven’t pre-screened, and invariably, if it’s not a well-written book, it’s even more of a chore to read aloud than it is to read to oneself. I read one book over the holidays to myself […]

Categories: Advice for Writers, Creativity, Reading • Tags: children's literature, creative process, editing, read, reading aloud, reading to kids, revision, revision process

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