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by Laurie Rockenbeck | Oct 16, 2013 | Writing
October again. And, a lot of my writing friends are talking about NaNo. And no, we’re not talking about Mork and Mindy. NaNo is short for NaNoWriMo which is short for National Novel Writing Month. If you’ve never heard of this, you really ought to check it...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Jun 6, 2013 | Writing
Earlier this year I entered the Pacific Northwest Writers Association contest with my current work, a thriller set in Seattle. While I didn’t win the contest, I am happy to have some new ideas to fuel the revisions ahead. If you had asked me eight years ago what...
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by Laurie Rockenbeck | Mar 18, 2013 | Writing
Really?: I haven’t put up a blog since November? I looked at the last blog post I made and just realized how long it has been since I’ve actually blogged. I chose the word actually here with purpose and not out of the lazy use of one of those pesky...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Jan 30, 2012 | Uncategorized, Writing
So, here I am, committing myself to editing this novel I started a long time ago. It’s the one a lot of friends have heard me talk about–Bess loses her entire family in a fire, moves to Redmond to live with her gay aunt, and goes survivor-guilt-crazy with...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Nov 8, 2011 | Uncategorized, Writing
It’s November, and my third year of doing the “NaNoWriMo” thing. Last year, well I blogged about last year. here, here, here, and here. The odd thing I just noticed is my current wordcount shows up on last year’s posts. You’ll have to...
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by Laurie Rockenbeck | Oct 3, 2011 | Exercise, Uncategorized, Writing
At the beginning of 2011, I set out with some pretty specific goals for the year. I ran across a recent suggestion that people forgo the January New Year’s goals and resolutions in favor of a more broadened “year-in-review and goals adjustment” timed...
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