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    My Writing Became a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
    lesaboutin
    • Mar 29
    • 2 min

    My Writing Became a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

    In my previous post, Writing My Way Out of the Darkness, I shared how I was diving back into writing as a means of healing after my...
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    Personify Story Setting and It Will Give You Advice
    lesaboutin
    • Feb 9
    • 3 min

    Personify Story Setting and It Will Give You Advice

    Using personification in writing.
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    Your Villain's Resume
    lesaboutin
    • Jan 26
    • 2 min

    Your Villain's Resume

    Ideas for writing a better villain.
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    Developing Characters Without the Hassle
    lesaboutin
    • Jan 18
    • 2 min

    Developing Characters Without the Hassle

    How to develop characters in a novel.
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    Cutting the Extra from Your Manuscript
    lesaboutin
    • Jan 13
    • 3 min

    Cutting the Extra from Your Manuscript

    Not to offend anyone, but the truth is, I don’t like verbose writing. I didn’t say I don’t like a long book, and I’m not talking about...
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    I'm a Writer and a Loser
    lesaboutin
    • Jan 6
    • 5 min

    I'm a Writer and a Loser

    Loser: 1: a person or thing that loses especially consistently 2: a person who is incompetent or unable to succeed 3: something doomed to...
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    Writing My Way Out of the Darkness
    lesaboutin
    • Dec 30, 2021
    • 3 min

    Writing My Way Out of the Darkness

    I started this site in fall of 2019. I’d been having fun creating some videos and decided to share them here. But within a short time, my...
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    Renderforest Video Maker
    lesaboutin
    • Oct 21, 2019
    • 2 min

    Renderforest Video Maker

    As a self-published author, I'm always looking for efficient ways to promote and market my work. So, while exploring options for best...
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    The Novel Starter Composition Book
    lesaboutin
    • Oct 21, 2019
    • 4 min

    The Novel Starter Composition Book

    Sometimes life doles out a departure from the norm. The summer of 2017 was that for me, in more ways than one, and the Novel Starter...
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    Snakes. Why’d it Have to be Snakes On the Book Cover?
    lesaboutin
    • Oct 21, 2019
    • 4 min

    Snakes. Why’d it Have to be Snakes On the Book Cover?

    My adventures in book covers continued with the next book in the Amanda Noble series. I’d gotten lucky with the first book since I needed...
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    I Needed a Book Cover
    lesaboutin
    • Oct 21, 2019
    • 3 min

    I Needed a Book Cover

    When I decided not to use the cover mock-up with the Steve Irwin caricature for my first book, Amanda Noble, Zookeeper Extraordinaire, I...
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    When an International Tragedy Affects a Book Cover
    lesaboutin
    • Oct 21, 2019
    • 3 min

    When an International Tragedy Affects a Book Cover

    In my last post, I mentioned working in a middle school library when I wrote Amanda Noble, Zookeeper Extraordinaire, now called Amanda...
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    Cover Up
    lesaboutin
    • Oct 21, 2019
    • 1 min

    Cover Up

    Recently, while rummaging through old photos, I started thinking about the evolution of the Amanda Noble covers, how much fun it’s been...
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    A Diet of Poetry
    lesaboutin
    • Oct 21, 2019
    • 2 min

    A Diet of Poetry

    In my last post, I wrote about using poetry in my creative writing classrooms, and how that changed my fiction writing. I'm continuing my...
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    Poetry Put My Prose on a Diet
    lesaboutin
    • Oct 21, 2019
    • 3 min

    Poetry Put My Prose on a Diet

    By definition, prose is dull. Look it up. Merriam-Webster defines it as: 1.) ordinary language people use in speaking or writing. 2.) a...
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