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Who put 24 hours in my day?!

{ Posted on Jan 11 2008 by Erica Ridley }
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Categories : The Inclined
I make New Years Resolutions every year. I'm an intrinsically motivated goal-oriented person, so I actually do daily, weekly, monthly goal-setting all year round, but I like the pomp and tradition of New Years Resolutions. One of mine was to do ...Read More »

How To Write Bad FanFic

{ Posted on Dec 14 2007 by Erica Ridley }
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Categories : The Inclined
Question: Is it possible to churn out bad fan fic of your own WIP? Answer: Apparently, yes. I've been struggling with a scene. Not that I'm actively not writing it, exactly. Just that I keep writing 2-3,000 words of it and then having to ...Read More »

Too Accurate?

{ Posted on Dec 07 2007 by Erica Ridley }
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Categories : The Inclined
We all can (probably) agree that there's such a thing as a story being ruined by gross inaccuracies due to poor research. But it there such a thing as too much accuracy? I've been thinking about this ever since I read ...Read More »

How realistic is too realistic?

{ Posted on Nov 30 2007 by Erica Ridley }
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Categories : The Inclined
Earlier this week, I read a post on the Manuscript Mavens blog about verisimilitude in Point of View and Characterization. The mavens were talking about how to make male characters sound different than female characters, and that got me thinking: ...Read More »

Setting as Character

{ Posted on Nov 23 2007 by Erica Ridley }
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Tags : Craft, Erica Ridley
Categories : The Inclined
I'd heard the phrase "The setting was a character in that novel" for years (okay, decades) before I had any clue what that meant. Being a description-challenged author when I first started taking writing seriously, I was lucky if I remembered ...Read More »

Combining Setting with Action

{ Posted on Nov 16 2007 by Erica Ridley }
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Categories : The Inclined
When I flew to Seattle last week for the Maven retreat, I intended to spend the 7 or 8 travel hours working on a particular scene in my WIP. I did not. Instead, I spent one leg of the trip ...Read More »

Budgeting Time Wisely

{ Posted on Oct 26 2007 by Erica Ridley }
3 Comments
Tags : Erica Ridley, Time Management
Categories : The Inclined
Confession: I am the queen of overextending myself. Well, maybe co-queen. A couple other folks I know are pretty darn good at this themselves. *g But no more! I have a plan to de-clutter my schedule. It begins with a little ...Read More »

The Joy and Horror of Beta Readers

{ Posted on Oct 12 2007 by Erica Ridley }
14 Comments
Tags : Critiquing, Erica Ridley, Revision
Categories : The Inclined
As you may or may not know, I recently got agent representation. Along with the contract came an edit memo (aka revision letter). A month of frenzied tweaking/rewriting ensued. During this process, as is our wont, I sent each finished ...Read More »

Story-Board Fevah

{ Posted on Sep 21 2007 by Erica Ridley }
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Tags : Erica Ridley, Plotting, Story Boards
Categories : The Inclined
As you may or may not know, I own the world’s most extensive variety of sticky notes. Not because I have some weird Post-It fetish! No, no, no. (Okay, not much. *g) Because they help me story board! Which has ...Read More »

Writing, Selling, & the occasional Ice Sculpture

{ Posted on Aug 24 2007 by Erica Ridley }
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Tags : Erica Ridley, Writing Life
Categories : The Inclined
Will your first book sell? In my case, no, because it’s busy decomposing in the Magical Mulch Pile under my bed. In your CP/chaptermate/neighbor’s case? Who knows. In anyone else’s case? Who knows. In your case? Who knows. And I posit: Who cares? Move forward! Because ...Read More »
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