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How important is it to write 10 hours a day?

April 17, 2014 by Hillary Homzie 1 Comment

I must admit that I love a balanced approached to time management. But I didn’t always. In the past (and no so distant past–we are talking like 3.5 years ago), whenever I had a publishing deadline I used to stay up all night long or more. Yes, on more than one occasion I stayed up […]

Filed Under: Blog, Time Management, Writing Advice Tagged With: balance, health, numbers of hours you should write, time management

Do you print out all your chapters as your write your WIP?

May 31, 2013 by Hillary Homzie 8 Comments

I used to always print out my chapters as I wrote. My printer saw a lot of me. But for my current WIP I did something very differently. I rarely printed out chapters after I wrote them. Instead, I did almost all of my editing on the computer. Look, there were exceptions. For example, I […]

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Revising from the Heart

April 26, 2013 by Hillary Homzie Leave a Comment

I’m here to tell you about a revelation I recently came to-—revise from the heart. The epiphany happened last Monday afternoon when I was feeling disheartened by the state of my current WIP. I had polished the first 40 pages (over and over again in a constant but safe retread). Why? Well, going forward pushes […]

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Twelve Writing Tips

February 27, 2013 by Hillary Homzie 5 Comments

Recently, a teen reader asked me to give her some writing tips, and after ruminating about what to send, I just started typing up some guidelines that hit me in no particular order. I didn’t get into the nitty gritty of line editing, such as–here are common placeholders or watch out for these flabby verbs. […]

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Here’s a quick video tip for simplifying your WIP

January 25, 2013 by Hillary Homzie Leave a Comment

Here’s how you can simplify your novel. Okay, not everything you need to know. Just one tip to start you off. And that tip is…drum roll please: collapse your characters. Watch the 30 second video (okay, I was cheating it’s 35 seconds actually) to find out how: Enjoy! Yours, Hillary p.s. forgive my presidential hairdo. […]

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Why I Need Silence to Write

November 26, 2012 by Hillary Homzie 2 Comments

Noise chases me. And when someone chases me, I run. Why? Well, I prefer silence in order to write. I know that this is not how everyone operates. Friends and colleagues post their playlists as they write. Wow. How do they do this? When I hear music my mind is pulled away from my own […]

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