Do You Know Where Your Novel Fits?

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The pandemic of recent years has wrecked havoc on the veterinary industry. In plain terms, there are less of us providing care, more pets than ever and the results is most veterinary practices can’t keep up. This is where capacity and prioritizing come in.

You can only do so much.

To keep my writing near to the top of the list, I have had to set goals and be uncompromisable when it comes to finding and protecting my writing time.

To further this goal, I signed up for a writing intensive with Chicken House Press, for 12 heavenly hours of uninterrupted time to write and reflect. Forefront on my writing time agenda was to address recent comments from an editor on the first 50 pages of the novel I am about to query.

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The Lies Some Writers Tell

Truth made up of liesFiction is not lying. That’s not what I’m talking about when I talk about the lies some writers tell. And writers aren’t liars for writing fiction. Far from it. They’re telling a sort of truth that is purer than any fact one might produce from experimentation and research.

How so? They’ve told you in advance that this is fiction. Therefore what you are reading is what is understood to be their thoughts, their creation. What could be purer or truer than that? Read more