Author: accooperwrites
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Structure and Story
This room gives me the creeps…you? I’ve been listening to some great videos put out by Nick Stephenson and Joe Nassise, called Story Engines. While Joe is a plotter, I think I’ll be able to put some of his method to use for my pantser style. He comes up with a premise, then adds characters…
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It’s a love/hate thing…
Computers…technology. When everything works well…love ’em. When everything doesn’t work well…hate ’em. Can you feel me? 😀 We’re big fans of Linux in this household…I run Linux Mint Cinnamon and the hubs has an ancient Ubuntu on his ancient desktop. He’s having issues viewing Youtube videos, but not so much on other websites. There…
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My First Ever Mock-Up…So Exciting!
Yesterday I did a mock-up using a template from a great guy, Mark Monciardini of Covervault. The first one is the template…obviously…and the next is the one I did of one of my stories…Murder in Blue Lake. This was just a test…me learning how to do it in Gimp. I’ve used Gimp before, but I…
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Oops…Too Much Fun!
Nearly forgot to post here… was having fun learning how to use mock-ups in Gimp. What fun! It’s late so I’m off to bed, but I’ll share my masterpiece tomorrow. 😏😁 Good night! 😊
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Is It Only January?
No, I’m not in a rush for the year to get going…I’ve got way too much I’d like to do, God willing. But what does make me ask the question is the weather here in Wisconsin. We’re melting like the Wicked Witch in a sauna…temps in the high 30s and rain? Rain? In January? Wouldn’t…
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Fiction Binging…Yes, Guilty as Charged!
Failed to post to this blog last night because I got caught up in watching the last six episodes of Better Call Saul, Season Two. It was nearly five o’clock in the morning when I finally stumbled into bed. Not a teenager anymore, Gladys…should have gone to bed sooooo much sooner! 😀 Ah well, loved…
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Try, try again
The schedule change…it just won’t work. Sure, I got up early enough to: Work on my fiction Exercise Let the dogs out of their house Feed my youngest son Get a shower Start client work But…that order just won’t work, because if I’m in the shower while the dogs are out, they’ll bark at…
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Overslept by an hour this morning…shut the alarm off and that’s all she wrote… So going to try the schedule shift tomorrow morning… Wish me luck!
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Slipping Jimmy…And the Shifting Schedule
Anyone ever watch the series “Breaking Bad?” Love, love, loved it. Intense, head shakingly stupid mistakes made by some of the characters but fun. One of the characters from that movie was the lawyer named Saul. I’ve never really known any lawyers on a personal basis, and I’m sure there are a lot…
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My Day…and Learning
Busy day, yet again, but a good one. No, I didn’t get to the fiction, but that’s life, eh? Need to tweak my schedule more to get in more bits of writing without sacrificing sleep…’cause I need my beauty rest…and lots of it! Learning Nick Stephenson, creator of Your First 10,000 Readers, has a series…