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Protected: My Characters’ Faces: A Writing Update

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Writing Book Blog

I considered starting a whole new blog for this, but I don’t really want to. So I’m going to sort of incoporate a bit of a writing blog here, where I’ll blog about this process of writing a novel/memoir. Updates won’t be too regular, and many of them will probably be password-protected because I think writing opens up a lot of personal stuff that I don’t really want to display to the world. The password will probably also be different to the password used for my usual protected posts, so if you’d like to read about my processes of writing an adoption book/memoir/novel, please contact me for the password. I may also post the occasional excerpt, which I definitely don’t want open to the public.

As this post is (obviously) public, I’m just going to say right now that I have 6000 words and for once, I’m pretty happy with those rough 6000 words, and have no intention of starting all over again. Again. So yay! I’ve been writing a bit a day (I only wish I had more time to do so!). And a random thing about me: I write really well in cafes. I get a lot done in cafes. Dunno what it is about cafes, but they’re just very writerly places for me.

It sucks that making a career as a novelist is rather difficult. But I wish I could. It would be the best thing ever.

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Adoption Writing and Memoir

Well, a few people know that I’ve been intending to do this for a while, but I have *officially* begun writing my adoptee “memoir”. This is going to be a very lengthy process for me, as I have to work full time, too. But if I died today, I’d be annoyed that I didn’t get it written. Since I got my new MacBook Pro, I’ve told myself to continue with this thing, without giving up! If I want to be a writer someday, I’m going to have to write a bit more than a few thousand words and not continue to start over because it’s “crap”. I can think of nothing better than to have a career as a writer (a “real” writer. Not “just” a copywriter!). And I’m trying to make this the beginning of that.

I’ve had some very helpful input and insights from people, thus far. And I thank you all for giving me your time and knowledge.

If you have any questions or queries, please feel free to contact me about this project.

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Memoir Part I

Paris Hilton – the Thought-Provoking Writer

A few years ago, Paris Hilton wrote and published a book. In it, she had “tips and hints” for being an heiress like herself (because we all know how much we’d all just love to be like Paris.). While flicking through the pink, glossy covers of this ridiculous piece of “writing”, I read her tips and hints. One of them being something along the lines of: “choose your DNA wisely. Choose the family you’re born into wisely. People don’t think you can choose this, but really, you can.” Now, I’m sure many people don’t look at a Paris Hilton book and think that it would have much in it that would be inspiring, thought-provoking or be fraught with philosophical insight. However, that quote has stuck with me since I read it…

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