Labor Day weekend: a new story
Buk Tu edits have been going well, though slowed by Labor Day weekend. We’ve been getting a lot of positive feedback from our editor,...
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Valerie Mechling Holley
- May 25, 2012
- 5 min
Writing & Revising: A Step by Step Process
There are a number of stages that we go through as writers to prepare a manuscript for publication. This differs slightly from writer to...
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Valerie Mechling Holley
- Apr 7, 2012
- 3 min
Epigraphs, poetry, and rhyming in fictional languages
I have a great love of epigraphs. With my own work, I am particularly fond of fictional quotations or works from in-world sources. For...
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Valerie Mechling Holley
- Apr 4, 2012
- 2 min
I #amrevising and I may be #goingcrazy
Revisions have been a roller coaster ride this week. Six days ago, Sam and I discussed a new scene that we felt needed to be added to...
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Valerie Mechling Holley
- Feb 25, 2012
- 1 min
#1 writing advice
If I had one piece of advice to give to writers–aspiring or established–it is this. Write every day. Let nothing interfere with this...
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Valerie Mechling Holley
- Feb 8, 2012
- 2 min
Writing, solitary? Hardly.
I always have to laugh a little when I hear people discuss the solitary art of writing. Talking about writers who holed up in an...
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Valerie Mechling Holley
- Feb 3, 2012
- 1 min
Moment of inspiration
I had a vision. This morning, as I was lying in bed trying to avoid the necessity of getting up and starting my day, I was thinking about...
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Valerie Mechling Holley
- Jan 27, 2012
- 2 min
The Episodic Novel
I have never been a big TV watcher. I still never watch TV shows on TV, but rather I watch shows on DVD, a season at a time (when I watch...
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Valerie Mechling Holley
- Jan 19, 2012
- 1 min
My writing soundtrack
I believe that most writers use music (or sound) which to some extent influences the writing process. Some experience this more strongly...
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Valerie Mechling Holley
- Jul 19, 2011
- 3 min
Collaborating with a Co-Author
One of the most common questions we get is something like this: “How does it work, having a co-author?” Writing is different for...
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Valerie Mechling Holley
- Apr 15, 2011
- 3 min
Brainstorming (Our writing process, part 2)
Fortune shone upon us this week. We had a lucky overlap of my Spring Break (the future ninjas are out of school, which means no classes...
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