November 2020 NaNoWriMo
Four years ago this November, I did NaNoWriMo. For the uninitiated, that stands for “National Novel Writing Month” and it requires the participant to write a 50,000 word draft (a short nov...
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Book Timeline & Updates
Many of you know that I’ve been writing historical novels for what seems like forever, but haven’t yet published a book. There have been times that I’ve felt less ambitious about it,...
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Editing Vs. Creating
I’ve been working really really hard to finish editing the fifth draft of The Eugenicist’s Assistant by the end of November. Partly this is in honor of NaNoWriMo, when people all over the ...
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NaNoWriMo 2017: I Did It My Way
Uhh, Leanne, it’s mid-November. NaNoWriMo started three weeks ago. Why are you posting this now? Well, mostly because I’ve been so wrapped up in actually doing NaNoWriMo that I haven’...
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Looking For Beta-Readers
Hello, dear readers! This week, I finished the third draft of my novel, The Loss of Our Mothers, set during the Great Blizzard of 1888. Which means that I am now looking for beta-readers. Hey, Leann...
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Writing Process: 7 Productivity Boosters
Draft 2 of Blizzard, my novel set during the Blizzard of 1888, turned into something of a beast: it was a complete re-write that took very little material from the first draft. I worked almost exclu...
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