I read a book one day and my whole life was changed – Orhan Pamuk
Some time in the summer of 2019, I came across Kate Cavanaugh on YouTube. She’s a writer and someone whom I consider to be a huge part of the Authortube side of YouTube, something I’ve always stayed on the edge of. After watching tons of her videos and hearing her talk about the Zero Draft, I decided that it was something I could adopt to help me better understand my writing process and the drafts I’ve already written.
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Unlike previous years, I’m setting a very different goal for my Goodreads Challenge this year. Before I even went into 2020, I was already thinking about what I should set for my reading challenge when the year began. And the idea of setting it to my usual 50 just didn’t feel right.
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If there’s one thing I’m really bad at when it comes to drafting, it’s finishing the draft. At the end of each NaNoWriMo, I’m never done with the story, but I’m so burnt out from writing every day that I have to take a break from my project. That usually leads to another problem – not returning to the project after I’ve recovered from the burnout.
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This is probably one of the hardest writing decisions I’ve ever had to make, but I’m not doing NaNoWriMo 2019.
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Coming into the journalism major, I had a lot of new things to learn. The writing style is so different from what I’m used to, and I spent the majority of my first year at Messiah learning how to write in AP style.
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