Tag Archives: writing a book

Die Wit Hond loop weer

January 22, 2010 – 9:33 am

Ek het eerstens besluit om my huidige skryfprojek se werkende titel te verander. Die titel was “Die geheimenis van die blou lig en die wit hond.” Van nou af noem ek dit net DIE WIT HOND. Dit sal wees totdat ek besluit wat die titel behoort te wees.
Ek skryf die titel in hoofletters want dit [...]

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When reality bites

January 16, 2010 – 3:06 pm

Two weeks into the new year reality starts to bite. You kicked of with all your resolutions and threw all your energy into your favourite projects. You showed great discipline and focus and things were really clicking along.
But now you get to the point where the admin you have been ignoring, just to get everything [...]

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This one lesson is worth it

October 19, 2009 – 6:56 pm

I have been doing Holly Lisle’s How to Think Sideways: Career Survival School for Writers course. I previously wrote some about what I thought of the course. That was a while ago so this is kind of an update.
What you learn from Holly Lisle’s course is how a successful writer (more than 30 books published) [...]

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Writing limbo

June 24, 2009 – 9:48 am

At the moment I am in writing limbo. I have a number of writing projects that stalled on me. I do not know exactly what is wrong with them or how to get them kick started again. I also don’t want to because picking up a project takes me into a certain headspace and I’m [...]

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Learner teacher

June 23, 2009 – 12:07 pm

I am pre-empting a question here. The question is, how can you write about how to write a book if you have never written a book before?
To answer that question let me tell you a bit about myself. I have a degree in fine arts majoring in painting and a teaching diploma. I have studied [...]

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