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66Secrets of Article Speed Writing: Achieving High Thought Velocity
One of the best kept secrets of productive speed writing is a procedure for achievement of a mind state where your thoughts flow freely. It's the opposite of "writer's block". This article gives a few examples and include specific suggestions on how you can do it.
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80Five Tips for Speed Writing
You don't need to be an insanely fast typist, but it helps. Speed writing for fiction marathons like http://www.nanowrimo.org or the http://www.3daynovel.com contest can be broken down into much easier,...
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58Starting the HubChallenge 100 Hubs in 30 Days
Here it is -- the great graphic for the 100 Hubs in 30 days Challenge. It started two days ago. That's when I saw pgrundy's first excellent Hub about the challenge. I commented to Pam that it looked like a...
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56How To Write A Three Day Novel
#18 of 100 -- still going! One thing I have discovered over the course of setting out to become a science fiction writer at age four (which then included fantasy, horrror, humor and Dr. Seuss in my concept of...
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54Starting Another HubChallenge 30 Hubs in 30 Days
This one seemed to pretty well describe me and Assorted Writing Challenges! Because last time I did 30 Hubs in 30 days on what was supposed to be 100 Hubs in 30 Days, started late, still went well beyond 30...
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69Some Nanowrimo Tips
My novel's protagonists are cats. Picture this cat black rather than white and you have one of them when he grows up. Norwegian Forest Cat ACEO by Robert A. Sloan My novel, Magic in the Streets, is 4/5ths of...
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71Nanowrimo 2009 Super Success!
Every year, http://www.nanowrimo.org hosts National Novel Writing Month. It's a huge event that turns the world's loneliest art form -- novel writing -- into something like the Boston Marathon. This year over...
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70How I Survived The Three Day Novel Contest - An Insane Writing Marathon
Miss Barbara's Lookout, watercolor by Robert A. Sloan The annual 3 Day Novel Contest is sponsored by a group of Canadian literary publishers who started it in 1977. It is complete, total insanity. It is to...
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67Did The HubChallenge Crash The Servers?
12th in my 100 Hubs in 30 Days Challenge -- and I'm moving out of state during the challenge? I'm nuts. It just wouldn't load. Around ten last night, a time when most people who spend too much time on the...
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82How to Start a Novel
Lewis Carroll may have been the one who said it. "Begin at the beginning, proceed through the middle until you reach the end. Then stop." That isn't how all writers work. Some writers do a lot better...
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