Monthly Archives: September 2012

Fan fiction vs. inspiration

Posted on September 30, 2012 by M. H. Lee

I’ll admit, I really don’t know enough about fan fiction to have a solid opinion on this, but it seems to me that there have been some very negative views taken of a few literary deals because they supposedly started … Continue reading →

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Getting Started

Posted on September 29, 2012 by M. H. Lee

My thoughts have started to turn to the next novel.  (Really I should’ve been working on the next novel for a few months now if I were religiously following the whole butt in chair school of thought, but between trying to … Continue reading →

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Getting to the point…

Posted on September 28, 2012 by M. H. Lee

The last few days on Absolute Write I’ve noticed something that’s started to annoy me. I don’t read every single post there.  It’s active enough that I could probably just sit in front of my computer all day and read … Continue reading →

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Pen Names

Posted on September 27, 2012 by M. H. Lee

Rachelle Gardner had a post today: Should We Rethink Pseudonyms?  This post doesn’t address the issues she raises there, but I have been thinking about writing this post for a while and now seemed as good a time as any. … Continue reading →

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To Write You Must Read

Posted on September 26, 2012 by M. H. Lee

(Before I start – note to WordPress: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.  Last time I had problems logging in it was when they changed their main page to display cat photos.  Very pretty, but by the time someone gets … Continue reading →

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Planning for the end (of life that is)

Posted on September 25, 2012 by M. H. Lee

Somewhere in a box I have poems that my father wrote over the years.  He was never published, he just wrote for himself (or as gifts to others).  And when he died I took ownership of his writings. Every once in … Continue reading →

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Doing a final read through

Posted on September 24, 2012 by M. H. Lee

I’m about 100 pages into a final read through of the novel.  This is the fifth(?) draft of the novel, although, quite frankly, it doesn’t really matter which draft it is. So, let’s see what I’ve done so far: Draft 1: What I … Continue reading →

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Writers and Depression (Part IV)

Posted on September 23, 2012 by M. H. Lee

Here’s the post I wanted to share yesterday related to writers and depression: BookLife: Past Endurance by LCM A good quote from the post: “Sometimes success, even the start of it, crushes writers. I’ve lost friends to that moment, when their … Continue reading →

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Query Letters – Some Random Links

Posted on September 22, 2012 by M. H. Lee

I was going to link to another post about authors and depression, but it turns out I’ve stored a ton of links related to query letters.  So, I figured I’d post those now before I forget which ones they are: … Continue reading →

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bird by bird by Anne Lamott

Posted on September 21, 2012 by M. H. Lee

(Random thought before I actually saying anything useful.  The cat photo that WordPress likes to show on the log-in page always makes me wonder if I can actually be a successful novelist if I don’t like cats.  It seems that … Continue reading →

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