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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Gathering the idea together is important.
What does this mean? Let's take another look at Cassandra West:
Cassandra is a young girl who is pulled out of her body and placed into the body of an older woman... herself, ten or twenty years older.
This is an idea. And it is where the ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
previous entry -- part I
Authors will tell you that finding an idea is not the hard part - rather, working through the idea is the hardest part in writing a book or story.
Writing a book is a long, lonely, and arduous task. Some people have the ability to do this ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Well, December 31st, 2007 came and went. I did not finish the 90,000 word goal. It got to a point where I knew, in advance, that I would not hit that number and yet, I didn't bother about it. Things happen, minds change, and I realized that to get what ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Cassandra sat in the dirt in front of a large cave opening, as instructed. She could hear water running that sounded like a river just to the other side of the entrance, even though she knew there was no way a river could flow from one side of that cave ...
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