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New Year’s Goals

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Loren Rhoads

I always get a charge in the fall, as if the new school year is starting. (Admission: I haven’t been back to school in a very long time.) I get another jolt of ambition at New Year’s. Of course, the … Continue reading →

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How you can win National Novel Writing Month

Posted on November 2, 2018 by Loren Rhoads

This is the talk I gave in September at this year’s Nanowrimo Kick-Off Party in San Francisco. I did Nanowrimo for the first time in 2003. I was a new mom of a two-month-old preemie. Not surprisingly, I couldn’t rub … Continue reading →

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Another Write-in Tonight

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Loren Rhoads

Tonight is the third Nanowrimo write-in I’m hosting at the Borderlands Cafe in San Francisco. If you are local, you should come and write with us, whether you are doing Nanowrimo or not. Every writer is welcome. So far, the … Continue reading →

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My First Write-In

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Loren Rhoads

I’ve been doing the National Novel Writing Month since 2003, because I find it entertaining to struggle to write a novel in a month.  Some years I’ve succeeded. Some years, I’ve crashed and burned.  Every year, I learn something more … Continue reading →

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The Weekly Morbid, two weeks later

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Loren Rhoads

I finally got The Dangerous Type turned in to Night Shade Books, then dove directly into working on the sequel.  I was calling it No More Heroes, which is still a great title but maybe not the best one for … Continue reading →

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