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Spark’s World – A Collaborative Writing Project
Posted on 25. Sep, 2009 by brad.
I just wanted to take a moment to announce a writing project that I’m currently hosting here at Writing with Brad, called Spark’s World. Sparks aka Rainbow Sparkle Middleton was a character I started writing for a failed project, but I couldn’t simply get her out of my mind. Her story will go nowhere since [...]
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How Not To Mary Sue
Posted on 22. Sep, 2009 by brad.
For those of you who don’t know a Mary Sue character is any character who can do it all and saves the day every time. It doesn’t matter if you’re writing fanfic or serious original novels the worst mistake you can make is let any single character Mary Sue their way along in your story. [...]
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NaNoWriMo
Posted on 14. Sep, 2009 by brad.
I have signed up for the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) which begins November 1, 2009. This is my first year of making this commitment. I had planned on doing it last year, but with my daughters due date on 11-08-08 there was no way in hell I was going to commit myself to this [...]
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Why I Write
Posted on 14. Sep, 2009 by brad.
Writing is an incurable disease. Those of us that have it, do it because we must. To Quote Dr Richard Ames aka Col Collin Campbel (The Cat Who Could Walk Through Walls by Robert Heinlein) “I once knew a writer who tried that route (psychoanalysis). Cured him of writing all right. But did not cure [...]