perfectionism

How Success Raises the Stakes…in Our Life

May 16, 2013 Over-Achieving Perfectionist
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In writing, we always want the stakes to increase over the course of a story. The problems get bigger, the risks get bigger, and the reasons the characters need to succeed get bigger. The same concept can apply to real life. When we first start a blog, it doesn’t matter if we fall flat on our [...]

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Tagged as: advice for writers, blogging, dreams, Jami Gold, Jami's rants, paranormal author, perfectionism, risk, self-doubt

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Ask Jami: WordPress Questions and Answers

April 18, 2013 Random Musings
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My two WordPress workshops are next week, so this is the last time I’ll mention them here on my blog. Try to contain your disappointment. *grin* Today, I’m summarizing the questions and answers from the Facebook chat about WordPress I did last week with Lisa Hall-Wilson. Facebook makes looking through old posts a hassle, so I wanted to [...]

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Tagged as: advice for writers, Ask Jami, blogging, Jami Gold, Lisa Hall-Wilson, paranormal author, perfectionism, programming, Tech Guy, website, website creation, WordPress, workshops

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Self-Publishing: Prioritizing Fast, Cheap, and Good

February 7, 2013 Writing Stuff
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All writers, especially those who self-publish, have to decide: Are we writing and publishing just for ourselves? Or are we writing and publishing to get customers (readers)? If we’re doing it for ourselves, things like editing and those nice covers we talked about last time don’t matter. Those who write for themselves can self-publish with [...]

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Tagged as: advice for writers, ebooks, editors, Jami Gold, paranormal author, perfectionism, print on demand, professionalism, self-publishing

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What Writing Step Are You Afraid Of?

January 10, 2013 Writing Stuff
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I’ve said before that I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions. However, I do have several writing goals for this year. Like many writers, my big goal has to do with making progress toward being published, and that means I have to face my fear. For me, that translates into… *dun dun dun* Query letters. That’s [...]

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Tagged as: advice for writers, agents, beta reader, feedback, Jami Gold, paranormal author, perfectionism, queries, risk, self-doubt

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Do You Make New Year’s Resolutions?

January 1, 2013 Over-Achieving Perfectionist
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New Year’s Day. The time of year when society tells us to make New Year’s Resolutions. We vow to eat better and exercise more. We promise ourselves we’ll carve out more “me-time” for reading or other enjoyable activities. We hope to become better organized or more charitable. Most of those resolutions don’t survive the month [...]

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Tagged as: advice for writers, happiness, Jami Gold, paranormal author, perfectionism, self-doubt

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Protect Your Wrists: Exercises for Writers

December 18, 2012 Writing Stuff
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Back in August, the keyboard I’d used for forever (about ten years) died. I tried using several other keyboards of various ergonomic configurations, but they all made my wrists hurt by the end of the day. After weeks of these inferior (to me) keyboards, my right wrist got so bad I had to wear a [...]

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NaNo Wrap-Up: Are You Happy with Your Accomplishment?

December 4, 2012 Over-Achieving Perfectionist
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For better or for worse, the National Novel Writing Month (NaNo) of November is over. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve been catching up on sleep. (I lost count of how many nights I stayed up until midnight to get as many words in as possible.) It was a month of highs and [...]

Tagged as: advice for writers, Jami Gold, Jami is insane, NaNoWriMo, paranormal author, perfectionism, self-doubt

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Writing Research: A Pain or a Gain?

November 27, 2012 Writing Stuff
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Readers often think that fiction writers just make stuff up. And that’s quite true—when it comes to most stories and characters. However, the supporting details of settings, props, jobs, and plot events are another matter. Whatever genre we write, we usually have to do some research in the course of drafting and revising our story. [...]

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Tagged as: genre, Jami Gold, Jami is insane, listening to characters, paranormal author, perfectionism, setting and description

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The Point of a Scene: Thinking in Concepts

November 20, 2012 Writing Stuff
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A couple of months ago, I read a blog post that forever changed how I approached drafting scenes. That probably sounds melodramatic, but it’s true. We’ve often talked about the differences between plotters and pantsers (those who write by the seat of their pants), and how as a die-hard-and-happy-about-it pantser, I don’t want to plot [...]

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Tagged as: advice for writers, Jami Gold, Jami is insane, Janice Hardy, listening to characters, muse, NaNoWriMo, paranormal author, perfectionism, plotter vs. pantser, self-doubt, story structure

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NaNo Check-In: Lessons from the Halfway Point

November 15, 2012 Writing Stuff
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Today, November 15th, marks the halfway point for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month—write a 50K word novel during November). That means all NaNo participants should reach 25,000 words on their NaNo project by midnight tonight. Yikes! That sounds like a big number—and it is—but I passed that milestone on November 11th. So far, I’ve been ahead [...]

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