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  • NaNoWriMo,  On Writing

    NaNoWriMo 2015? Five reasons I might not enter

    August 31, 2015

    I have taken the option to enter NaNoWriMo 2015 in serious consideration since the year started. After struggling with mental health for most of the last year, I found it difficult to stick to a definite schedule to get my novel drafts complete — and hitting 50,000 words minimum. My previous novels are still incomplete. Mental illness often means I will completely disconnect with my characters and their worlds, so I will shut down and wind up being unable to continue the character development writing process. That doesn’t mean I will surrender, however. It might take another two years, another four, maybe ten — but I will get there eventually.…

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    Enter NaNoWriMo 2020! I’m doing it with Rebooster and Alina B.

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  • On Writing

    Furniture for writing inspiration: ingredients to a good story?

    August 12, 2013

    How can a writer get good story ideas from hotel resorts and bar supplies, you’d ask? Well, writers are not unlikely to beĀ  inspired by daily things. A closet may become the perfect excuse for mystery or fantasy events, a doll could bring back to old family memories that cross borders with history and drama. Even resorts and bar supplies could be the perfect setting for a thriller, or a story revolving around mysterious character who never stops by a city for more than one night. Looking at bar supplies for setting ideas, you can have that barman in your story who always messes up with colors and decorations and…

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  • On Writing

    Humble jobs for a story’s protagonist? Yes, absolutely!

    February 21, 2013

    What if a character of mine worked for a service like Maid to Please? I’m sure you know what I mean. Humble jobs. Yet jobs filled with love and passion for what people do. One of my newest fictional characters, Reina Pater, works for a house-cleaning service. Only for some time in her story, but yes, she does. And it doesn’t make her a cybernetic Cinderella. The cleaning job actually teaches her to be more human-like. She learns what it means to be a human being with all the hopes, sacrifices and dreams involved. She grows as a character and as a person. In the past, I used to give…

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About Lia

Passionate Sci-Fi writer and unrepentable bookworm. Loves robots and artisan work. Enjoys drawing for fun. She/her demigirl. Read more.

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  • Apr 22, 2021 Book Review: The Heir and the Enchantress by Paullett Golden
  • Dec 20, 2020 Book Review: In the Key of Code by Aimee Lucido
  • Dec 04, 2020 Book Review: Protostar (The Star-Crossed Saga, #1) by Braxton A. Cosby
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  • Nov 13, 2020 Winning at NaNoWriMo – How to Write a 50k Novel in 30 Days

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Writing Progress

Novel started in 1998

Per me, perle bianche
69% Complete
208 of 300 pages
SciFi, robot rights, a woman and a robot in love.

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