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1,000 Words of Summer prep list
Getting ready to write 14,000 words in 14 days
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Shayne Terry
May 2023
6 things
Project check-ins, summer goals, submissions, and two summer books to preorder
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Shayne Terry
3
A Morning Ritual
Since joining the Morning Writing Club, my weekday mornings have looked pretty much the same: Arrive home from school dropoff Light the same candle Play…
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Shayne Terry
POV problems
A (very slow) breakthrough regarding the pond novel and omniscience
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Shayne Terry
April 2023
Related and unrelated
A mishmash of things from this week in writing
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Shayne Terry
The Conspiracy of Art
It feels good to be in love with my old novel project again. It also feels right. Two things happened recently, both of which gave me that magical…
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Shayne Terry
I joined the Morning Writing Club
... and I love it.
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Shayne Terry
2
Return to the glass house
I guess I'm going to be jumping back and forth between two novel projects
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Shayne Terry
March 2023
New goal: become a night writer
I am trying a new thing: writing at night. Time to write continues to elude me. Between the ridiculously early kid wake-ups and the morning rush and the…
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Shayne Terry
2
One manuscript asks a question and the other manuscript answers
The pond novel has three main characters, but Anna and I both agree that, in this first draft, one of them is just much more compelling than the other…
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Shayne Terry
1
AWP 2023 or I thought I didn't like Seattle but it was actually very nice
I had high hopes of writing this week’s ten pages while at AWP. I know! Cue laugh track! But I did actually knock out a couple of pages on Saturday…
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Shayne Terry
3
Backward to move forward
Anna and I spent yesterday afternoon trying to figure out the rest of the pond novel’s plot, and I think we got a lot of it. We definitely have the…
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Shayne Terry
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