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5 Courses of the Rough Draft – Are you hungry yet?
Rough Drafts can be a tricky thing. The process that one author takes will look completely opposite from that of another. Each of us have...

Laura L. Zimmerman
Feb 28, 20164 min read
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The humility of reading books and exercises of gray matter
One of my goals for the New Year has been to read more books on the art of writing. I’ve read a few books here and there, but have always...

Laura L. Zimmerman
Feb 26, 20153 min read
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Do you have thick skin?
Here’s a little secret about me: When I was young, I wanted to be an actress! No lie. I got bitten with ‘the bug’ around age 11 and even...

Laura L. Zimmerman
Feb 17, 20153 min read
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Parties and snowflakes and books that are finished! These are a few of my favorite things!
So, I just looked and saw the date of my last post on my blog. *blush, blush* Has it really been that long? Is it any consolation that...

Laura L. Zimmerman
Jan 26, 20151 min read
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Story Rx: It’s all in the details…
So, I recently glanced through one of my manuscripts that I hadn’t seen in a while. Partway through, I noticed that I had a child...

Laura L. Zimmerman
Dec 9, 20144 min read
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Less is More
So, I’m about to lend out ‘Fallen Ashes’ to some beta readers, to (hopefully) enter the final steps of revision. As I went back through...

Laura L. Zimmerman
Dec 6, 20142 min read
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Do you self publish?
I had a discussion with a friend today, a familiar topic which seems to come up a lot, when talking to people about the progress of my...

Laura L. Zimmerman
Nov 17, 20143 min read
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Be brave… you’re gonna fail.
This morning I had the privilege of hearing author Shawn Smucker speak at a local Writer’s meeting. It wasn’t a “how to” workshop, or the...

Laura L. Zimmerman
Nov 15, 20143 min read
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NaNoWriMo – Day 6
Almost there! Tomorrow will be one full week into 2014 NaNoWriMo. How is it going? Have you begun writing yet? What are you writing...

Laura L. Zimmerman
Nov 6, 20141 min read
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Tis the season… to write!
Well, it’s officially November – Time for NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month! I’ve been back and forth on whether to actually dive...

Laura L. Zimmerman
Nov 1, 20141 min read
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How Bethany Beach made me a better writer
A month ago, we had our end of the summer hurrah by visiting a beach we’d never been to before – Bethany Beach, DE. We’d heard nothing...

Laura L. Zimmerman
Oct 3, 20144 min read
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