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Author Archives: Matthew Shean
Where to Go from Here?
NaNoWriMo has ended, about a week past. I’ve written about my expectations, about what it’s taught me, and about whether I feel I met those expectations. So, now what? Well, as I said at the outset – NaNoWriMo is viewed by some … Continue reading
What Have I Learned?
So, today’s the 29th of 30 days in November, and NaNoWriMo 2015 is drawing to a close soon. What have I learned? How have I done? And did I meet my goals? Well, first let’s look at the metric most people … Continue reading
Hey, I wrote a book, will you read it?
I’ve been reading and listening to author interviews for years, hoping to better understand what it’s like to be an author. And one of the things they always mention with dread is when some random stranger asks them to read something they … Continue reading
Shattering Myths and Misconceptions
Shattering Myths and Misconceptions, or What I’ve learned about myself from less than a week of NaNoWriMo Myth #1: Writing Takes Time I have always operated based on the belief, backed up by years of experience, that in order to write, … Continue reading
NaNoWriMo
November is a strange time for writers. There’s this thing called NoNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. It’s a contest where participating writers challenge themselves to write 50,000 words of a new novel solely within the 30-day span labeled ‘November.’ … Continue reading
Getting Back into a Rhythm
In the Season 3 finale episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Graduation Day: Part 2), the gang has just graduated high school, as well as fought and (SPOILER!) defeated the Big Bad of the season. In the aftermath, Seth Green’s character, Oz, … Continue reading
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Handling Rejection
Rejection is never far away from a working author. Some of the major speculative fiction (that’s industry terminology for science fiction, fantasy, or horror. All three also collectively known as ‘genre fiction’) markets for short stories have acceptance rates of … Continue reading
Suspense
I’m not writing today about how to write suspense, but rather about the sense of suspense I am living in. I posted back at the end of March that I had submitted my first real story submission, and in the … Continue reading
Thoughts on Convergence and Plagiarism
Hello all. It’s been just over 2 months since I’ve posted here. No real reason why yea or nay. Don’t have enough interesting to say to put it here daily, and in the writing time I have, I’d rather spend it … Continue reading
Thoughts on Beginnings 2 – On Starting, The Gap, and Letting It Suck.
I am sitting here in my living room, trying to get back into some sort of writing groove. I had nearly two weeks of time with my kidlets home from school, and it felt like there was no time at … Continue reading
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