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Passionate about Podcasts
Listening to podcast, reading a book, listening to an audiobook and watching films isn't waste of time. It's how somebody becomes wise!...

Valerie G Miller
Apr 3, 20213 min read
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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...

Valerie G Miller
Dec 19, 20205 min read
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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...

Valerie G Miller
Dec 12, 20205 min read
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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...

Valerie G Miller
Dec 5, 20203 min read
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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...

Valerie G Miller
Nov 28, 20203 min read
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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....

Valerie G Miller
Nov 21, 20203 min read
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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...

Valerie G Miller
Nov 14, 20204 min read
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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...

Valerie G Miller
Nov 7, 20205 min read
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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...

Valerie G Miller
Oct 24, 20204 min read
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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...

Valerie G Miller
Oct 17, 20201 min read
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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...

Valerie G Miller
Oct 10, 20204 min read
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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...

Valerie G Miller
Oct 3, 20204 min read
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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...

Valerie G Miller
Sep 26, 20204 min read
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