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Battling The Soul Sucking Self-Doubt of The Blank Page
How was your summer? Was it too short, too hot, and too hectic? Yeah, my summer was like that too. I am not sure if the world was always this crazy, or if we are just more connected by the internet...
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Don’t get Lost in the Woods
This is the Weekly post where the Word Nerds share their epic writing fails and things that drive us crazy as readers. Inevitably you will hit a roadblock somewhere along this trek through the dark...
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Word Nerd D20 Challenge!
This Week we are starting a new Saturday Block Buster Series: The D20 Flash FictionChallenge! Rules are simple, you grab your D20 (or pull up a random number generator) Roll for each category and set...
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The #1 Way To Be A More Productive Writer
Just Write. That’s really it though isn’t it. This response is often met with an eye roll or an always succinct “well, duh”, remark, but quite honestly that is the most important part of being a...
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Finding the Time, Writing Hacks to Get the Most Out of Your Writing Time
Let’s face it we are all busy people, scrambling to find the time to create the next great novel in the fragments of time that our lives allow us. Sometimes those fragments are so small that we can’t...
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Don’t Lose Your Voice!
This is the Weekly post where the Word Nerds share their epic writing fails and things that drive us crazy as readers. People tend to think of a writer’s voice as some elusive magical thing that they...
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Kill Your Character! Block Buster Writing Prompt
Have fun killing your characters! If you feel like sharing, link it up in the comments so we call all bask in your writing brilliance. As always,
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The Word Nerds were Tagged for The Blogger Recognition Award!
One of the coolest things about blogging is the community that comes with it. It’s not something you typically think about when you decide to start blogging, generally the decision to start a blog...
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Fighting for Good Romance Novels
I love a good romance novel. There are no bad ones in my opinion, just ones that could have been more complete. If you choose to write romance novels, and I hope you do, you are going to take a lot...
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Writing to a Booktrack
I cannot write without music. Music is the sweet nectar that entices the muse and gets her just drunk enough to bend to my will. Without music, I would not be nearly as productive. Many of us creative...
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The End, Don’t Fuck it Up
You can write a book, but if you don’t have a spectacular ending you don’t have much. A good ending can save a mediocre book, and a poor ending can ruin a great book. Here at Word Nerd headquarters we...
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The D20 Flash Fiction Challenge!
Rules are simple, you grab your D20 (or pull up a random number generator) Roll each category and Set your wordsmithy phasers to stun. Get creative, go crazy, have fun. Type up a short story (300-1000...
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Read or Write, that is the question.
I am a great reader, I can hold down three jobs, handle a house, a family, and still manage to read a book a day. That, however, does not get the current novel written. It does give me a great excuse...
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Read TO Write
I was recently given an amazing, wonderful and beautiful gift. A good friend of mine lent me his books. Not a book but books, as in the plural form, as in my totally awesome and amazing friend said,...
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Branding Yourself
As writers, we are constantly bombarded with a list of things we HAVE to do to be a part of the writing industry. Authors are told that to sell any of their works they HAVE to have and editor, they...
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Inspirational Words from Famous Authors
I have been crazy busy this week due to part of my support staff being on vacation. You never know how much you rely on co-workers until they are gone. In light of that, I have chosen to do a quote...
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The Self Publishing Jungle
I wanted to write a post about self-publishing your WIP. I thought the information would be fairly straight forward and easy to weed through. Wrong again mi compadres, amazing how often that...
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Let Your Characters Reign
My characters speak to me. I’m sure to some degree yours do too if they didn’t you probably wouldn’t be a writer. Let’s be honest, this is a pretty ridiculous career to get into, sane people don’t...
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