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  • Blog Posts,  My Writing Journey

    NaNoWriMo Week 3: The Plot Thickens

    November 27, 2018 /

    At this point I’m not really sure why I’m labeling these posts as “NaNoWriMo” anything, because this has definitely been my worst NaNoWriMo ever. Wait, let me check the stats on that. Uhhh yeah. It looks like I got to 30k back in 2012.  And this is what this year looks like: Here’s a graph in case my level of failure isn’t immediately apparent to you: I’m not all that bummed out about it. As I mentioned in my previous posts, I had a number of projects going at the same time and getting my daily word count in for the Space Circus ended up at the bottom of my…

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  • Adventures in Research,  Blog Posts,  My Writing Journey

    NaNoWriMo Week 2: Onward and Upward!

    November 19, 2018 /

    The second full week of NaNoWriMo has come and gone, and I have a couple confessions to make. 1) I am waaay behind on my NaNoWriMo project. 2) I’m actually kind of okay with that. Here’s what’s been going on. I recently got an idea for an entirely new flash fiction piece about 1700 words long, and have spent the last few weeks drafting it, revising it, and polishing it up. It takes place in a fantasy-version of Iceland a long, long time ago. I’m submitting it for the first time today, so wish me luck! I’ve been trying to keep up with The Island Book as well, adding 600…

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    November 12, 2018

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  • Adventures in Research,  Blog Posts,  My Writing Journey

    NaNoWriMo Week 1: Aerial Silk Classes!

    November 12, 2018 /

    Once a year, the writers of the world rally together in attempt to each write fifty-thousand words in one month. It’s called NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. It’s an exercise in both writing prolifically, but also in camaraderie. Along the way, we’re treated to pep talks from amazing authors, and everyone who reaches 50k “wins.” I made my first NaNoWriMo attempt in 2012, learned a few lessons, and successfully reached 50k when I tried again in 2013. I didn’t come back to it because, well, it’s a time-suck and the manuscript I wrote in 2013 was too rushed to create any usable material. I felt like NaNoWriMo was a…

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  • Blog Posts,  My Writing Journey,  Rejections

    I Got FIVE More Rejections! (6-10)

    November 6, 2018 /

    Click the following links to read… My First Rejection Letter My Second Rejection Letter My Third Rejection Letter My Fourth Rejection Letter My Fifth Rejection Letter I’ve hit a major milestone in my writing…I’ve received five more rejections, and finally got my tenth! And I must say, these last ones led to some special moments. My seven year old, Bubs, was in the room when I got one of them and I thought he might be interested in seeing it. I showed him my “rejection binder” where I print them all out so I can flip through them. “Wow! That’s a lot of rejections!” he said when he looked at it.…

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  • Blog Posts,  My Writing Journey,  Writing Advice

    My Best Writing Advice Part 3: How I Write for Six Hours a Day

    November 1, 2018 /

    This is the (very long) third installment to my “Best Writing Advice” series.Click here for My Best Writing Advice Part 1: “Riding” Like a ProfessionalClick here for My Best Writing Advice Part 2: The Three Keys to a Professional Routine Without further ado, Part 3: In August of 2017, I had a little bit of a meltdown. I had finished the novel I’d been working on since my childhood, and had decided to shelve it. While I’d planned for the book to be the first in a series, I realized it would work much better as a sequel, and the new “first book” had yet to be written. I even…

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    My Best Writing Advice Part 2: The Three Keys to a Professional Routine

    October 15, 2018 /

    Last week I drew out a very long analogy to demonstrate why having a professional writing routine before publication is, in my opinion, one of the most important skills you can develop as an unpublished author. I claimed that, “Having a predictable, productive, and sustainable approach to your writing is just as important as writing well.” Now, if I’m going to claim that predictability, productivity and sustainability are the three keys of professional writing, I should probably define what I mean by those terms. Key 1. PREDICTABILITY I work analogous to a lot of women who, on top of writing, carry the majority of the domestic duties in their home, such as parenting,…

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  • Blog Posts,  My Writing Journey,  Writing Advice,  Writing Resources

    My Best Writing Advice Part 1: “Riding” Like a Professional

    October 8, 2018 /

    Imagine you have a horse, a newborn foal, fresh out of the caul and at first it can’t even stand on four legs. It learns to walk, awkwardly, and you fall in love. Let’s say there’s a parade coming up in a few years with a prize for the best horse, and you believe in your horse and want to get that prize. So you feed your horse and give it water. Sometimes you give it treats — apples and carrots — and it nuzzles you and oh, isn’t everything just wonderful? It comes time to train the horse, which you thought would be easy, since you and your horse…

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  • Blog Posts,  Family Life,  Game Recommendations

    Game Recommendation: Broken Age

    October 1, 2018 /

    So there’s this game called Broken Age that came out five years ago. It’s a point-and-click adventure game, which means you have an interactive story that moves along as you solve puzzles. It has gorgeous two-dimensional art, a fantastic story, superb voice acting, and a live score featuring the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and a small ensemble of San Francisco musicians. In short, it is a marvelous game and I can’t believe I’d never heard of it until recently. (Come on, Big Brother, if you’re going to violate my privacy and use consumer algorithms to inundate me with ham-fisted advertisements, you should probably have figured out what games I like by…

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  • Blog Posts,  My Writing Journey

    What I’m Working On: Autumn 2018

    September 18, 2018 /

    Hey guys! I know I just did one of these updates last month, but Autumn starts on September 22nd this year, so I’m going to go ahead and give you the fall writing slate. I also wanted to let everyone know that I’m planning a series of blog posts about HOW I get so much writing done, because that seems to be what a lot of you are curious about. I’m excited to share my secrets with you — as soon as I can organize them into neat little posts! IN DEVELOPMENT: NEW! History 100 Essay A historical essay about the scientists who aided in the creation of the atom…

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  • Arts and Craftiness,  Blog Posts,  Family Life,  My Writing Journey

    Meet JJ and CC – The First Tylerbots!

    September 4, 2018 /

    This is CC (below left) and JJ (below right), the new mascots for ChristineTyler.com. I’ve actually wanted some robot mascots for several years now, and started collecting materials when I was in Japan. CC’s music box, for instance, plays Always With You from Miyazaki’s Spirited Away. I knew I wanted a robot theme for my blog images when I rebooted the site, but since I hadn’t made the robots yet I had to settle for stock images. Apparently taking pictures of adorable little robots doing daily tasks is already a thing! Now that I have my own robots though, I can take much more specific pictures +  I don’t have…

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