The Debutante Ball

Seven debut authors. Seven books. One big dance toward publication.

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Tag: Drafting

  • Posted on Wednesday, October 9, 2019Wednesday, October 9, 2019
  • by Karen Osborne

Oh, how I love the bracket trick.

I love revisions. (I know, you’re about to ask—which demon rose from depths of hell and is currently wearing a…

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  • Posted on Friday, October 12, 2018Tuesday, October 9, 2018
  • by Martine Fournier Watson

Dorothy Parker and the Vicious First Draft

    It is one of the minor tragedies of my life, perhaps a major tragedy in my writing life,…

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  • Posted on Monday, July 30, 2018Monday, July 30, 2018
  • by Cass Morris

Book Two: Blessing or Curse?

When I sold From Unseen Fire, I got that coveted thing: a multi-book deal. Three, in fact! A guarantee that…

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  • Posted on Monday, December 4, 2017Sunday, December 3, 2017
  • by Cass Morris

Takin’ the long way around: FROM UNSEEN FIRE’s path to publication

A tale of a book, from pen to shelf: November 2011 — Project begins, called simply Aven, as Cass’s 2011…

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  • Posted on Monday, November 27, 2017Sunday, November 26, 2017
  • by Cass Morris

Telling Myself the Story: Composing a first draft

It’s fortuitous that this topic falls here, at the end of November, as I’ve spent the past 26 days frantically…

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  • Posted on Monday, November 13, 2017Monday, November 13, 2017
  • by Cass Morris

Creative Fecundity: On the beauty of NaNoWriMo

I love NaNoWriMo. I’ve participated, in some fashion or another, nearly every year since 2002 — my senior year of…

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  • Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2015
  • by Sona Charaipotra

Tell Me Again How We Get to “The End?”

This week at the Deb Ball, we’re talking about drafts. And as much as I’d like to say I have…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2014Wednesday, September 10, 2014
  • by Karma Brown

On Writing: Here, There, and Everywhere.

If I were creating a dream office to write my bestseller in it would have five things: an antique wooden…

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