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Feb 10

Write or Wrong: Part 1

How Do You Create Characters? — In my early stages of writing, I found a lot of myself went into creating my main characters. They were who I wanted to be, or they were slices of my life reimagined. Other characters in my books were based on friends. There’s nothing wrong with that. …

Writing Tips

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Write or Wrong: Part 1
Write or Wrong: Part 1
Writing Tips

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Mar 13, 2021

Taking Time Out as a Writer

What to write or do next? — With a finished novel under my belt and query letters currently sitting in numerous agent email boxes, I’m faced with the conundrum of what to do next. My finished novel took over ten years off and on to complete, so I’m mentally exhausted. But I’m also one of those writers…

Writing

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Taking a Time Out as a Writer
Taking a Time Out as a Writer
Writing

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Mar 6, 2021

What I Learned from Participating in #PitMad

You might be asking: What is #PitMad? #PitMad is the hashtag for a quarterly event that takes place on Twitter where writers tweet their 280-character pitch for their unpublished book or novel. Literary agents can then show interest by liking or favoriting your tweet. The first event of the year…

Writing

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What I Learned from Participating in #PitMad
What I Learned from Participating in #PitMad
Writing

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Aug 17, 2020

How To Write 10 Short Stories in 10 Weeks

I started 2020 doing a final edit of my next novel and preparing to start the daunting task of querying literary agents. I’d been working on this particular novel off and on for almost ten years, so I was exhausted creatively. Always eager to be writing something, I started to…

Storytelling

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How To Write 10 Short Stories in 10 Weeks
How To Write 10 Short Stories in 10 Weeks
Storytelling

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May 18, 2020

My Own Aphorisms

Part 1 — After reading Sarah Manguso’s 300 Arguments I started making a list of my own aphorisms as a fun writing project. I debated on keeping them private or sharing them. I decided to share them, so here are the first 25. If you haven’t read Manguso’s book, I highly recommend it. …

Aphorisms

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My Own Aphorisms
My Own Aphorisms
Aphorisms

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Apr 4, 2020

Year Interrupted

A View from the Essential Sidelines — I just wrapped up another week of Isolation. I’m fortunate enough to work for a company that is a medical supply wholesaler. …

Covid-19

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Year Interrupted
Year Interrupted
Covid-19

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Mar 5, 2020

What I Learned From My First Week of Querying Literary Agents

Tips for the Novelist When It Comes To The Next Step — It took ten years to write my latest novel. It’s taken the last year to finish the final edit. During that time, all I did was work on my novel. I did not draft query letters. I did not write a synopsis. I did not compose tweets to pitch my…

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What I Learned From My First Week of Querying Literary Agents
What I Learned From My First Week of Querying Literary Agents

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·Feb 18, 2020

The Muse

a poem — Sometimes we are not proud of words we write back when they feel eager and driven They are still our words to own some day and only then do we comprehend their wisdom. I was just catching up with my muses trying to grasp who I was matching their youth They didn’t know themselves either back then but they were better at faking the truth. They left a road map in the letters they wrote and in the books in which they bled Their blood and soul on every page Between the lines their secrets I read.

Poem

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The Muse
The Muse
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·Feb 12, 2020

Chalkboards

a poem — Why are some chalkboards green and some black? Once, were more than the students segregated? Separate water fountains, separate washrooms, Separate waiting rooms for blacks, for whites Lines drawn with colored chalk. I will not give up. I will not give up. I will not give up. Why did their…

Poetry

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Chalkboards
Chalkboards
Poetry

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·Feb 10, 2020

It’s Okay To Take a Year to Write Your Novel

How to stay on track to finish your novel in one year — I see how-to articles on Medium and on other sites all the time with titles like “How To Publish Your Novel In 6 Months” or “How to Write Six Books a Year.” I immediately go to Amazon and type in that writer’s name to see what types of books they…

Novel Writing

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It’s Okay To Take a Year to Write Your Novel
It’s Okay To Take a Year to Write Your Novel
Novel Writing

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Shannon Yarbrough

Shannon Yarbrough

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Writer, Poet, Artist, Gardener, Southerner, Reader, Blogger, Creative. Not always in that order. www.shannonyarbrough.com

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