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Valerie G Miller
Mar 7, 20215 min read
What’s in a name?
What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare (Romeo and...
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Valerie G Miller
Feb 6, 20215 min read
New beginnings
Every moment is a fresh beginning. T.S. Eliot The new year has started, which means new goals, new habits to build, old habits to break...
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Valerie G Miller
Dec 19, 20205 min read
Why a pseudonym?
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It...
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Valerie G Miller
Dec 12, 20205 min read
The Autumn of my Dreams
People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want to be...
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Valerie G Miller
Dec 5, 20203 min read
Twelve Rejections ... coming of age as a writer
I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. Sylvia Plath I read an article about a writer whose goal was to receive 100 rejections in...
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Valerie G Miller
Nov 28, 20203 min read
Miss Muse ... why are you so fickle?
Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll. Helen Hanson Muse. A noun. There...
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Valerie G Miller
Nov 21, 20203 min read
Great first lines that get you hooked
Reading a novel is a journey. A great novel can entice you into a wonderful new world filled with great characters, events and emotions....
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Valerie G Miller
Nov 14, 20204 min read
National Novel Writing Month ... a.k.a NaMoWriMo
There's an old folk saying that goes: whenever you delete a sentence from your NaNoWriMo novel, a NaNoWriMo angel loses its wings and...
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Valerie G Miller
Nov 7, 20205 min read
If you want to do... you have to say yes to no!
You don't find time to write. You make time. Nora Roberts 2020. 20 days. 20 thousand words. I do have an affiliation for numbers that...
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Valerie G Miller
Oct 31, 20206 min read
Short Stories are Big Quests
A short story is a love affair; a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film. Lorrie Moore As an emerging...
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Valerie G Miller
Oct 24, 20204 min read
The Writer’s Community
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. John Donne Throw the confetti. Ring...
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Valerie G Miller
Oct 17, 20201 min read
Writing Milestones ... Quotes to Inspire
I have spent the last three months plotting and planning my first novel. If you have read my past posts, you will know that my original...
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Valerie G Miller
Oct 10, 20204 min read
First Drafts are Messy.
One of the greatest benefits of writing a truly awful, lousy, no good first draft is that it can only get better from there. (Martha...
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Valerie G Miller
Oct 3, 20204 min read
Breaking up with Pantsing and my affair with Plotting.
“Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.” Winston Churchill Are you a Plotter? A Pantser? Or Plantser? These are...
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Valerie G Miller
Sep 26, 20204 min read
Rules of Engagement
I love writing. Playing with words. Creating new characters. Telling stories. Some days it's easy. You sit down and you write. The words...
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