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Filters–Everybody Uses Them. Use this to enhance your characters.

September 15, 2020 by Dyany

Everyone has filters that affect how we perceive things. Figuring out yours can help you figure out your character’s, and that helps you portray them more accurately.

Categories Booky stuff, Psychology Tags characterization, psychology, tips, writing Leave a comment

Suggestions for Using Scrivener in Critique Groups

September 15, 2020January 18, 2018 by Dyany

I love using Scrivener for all my writing, as you well know.  However, it took me a while to find a good process for sharing writing with my critique group, and it’s a bit fiddly, so I thought I would share. Now, with critique groups, it is usually not feasible nor practical to simply share … Read more

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Self-Worth and Eternal Editing Hell

September 15, 2020April 23, 2017 by Dyany

I know basically two kinds of new writers.  Those who believe they suck, and those who believe they are awesome.  I know a LOT more of the first kind than the second kind, which is actually kind of nice because their writing is usually a lot better.  That may seem a little ironic on the … Read more

Categories Booky stuff, Ponderings Tags editing, psychology, writer's block, writing 1 Comment

Writing Conflicts and Living

September 15, 2020February 4, 2017 by Dyany

So I’m reading this book right now (well…audiobook…but still) and I stopped about four days ago because I started to realize what the major conflict is probably going to be, and it makes me SO MAD that it’s going to happen that I just haven’t been able to do it right now.  Like, if I … Read more

Categories Booky stuff, Ponderings Tags conflict, life, pain, reading, writing 1 Comment

Random ramblings

September 1, 2016 by Dyany

Depression big time sucks. I talk too much.  Overexplain.  Egad. I just got a copy of Calvin by Martine Leavitt.  It has to do with Calvin and Hobbes and mental illness and stuff so it looks really interesting. I’ve been kind of trying to read Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin the last … Read more

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