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Skye Knight enjoys sharing her writing journey via her blog, with every intention of releasing a new post with her updates on her site and via her newsletter every week, but more often, it's every month. The blogs share where she's at with what she's working on, her learnings about the process, and what is inspiring (or stumping!) her. Skye looks forward to branching out to share more of her life beyond her writing and to start covering more of her painting life as she dives back into that!

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Finally, We’re Live!

Wow, I have been holding so many things back that I must share with y’all. Here is all the news since my last post. As of this past Sunday night, I turned in the first book of my contemporary romance trilogy to the professional editor I’ve hired through the awesome …

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Why I Hate Editing My Own Work

I had a great call with my Write Better Faster coach today about why I always get tripped up on editing and feedback. Some people hate a blank page, and some people hate editing. It often varies because of your strengths. I’m really writing this blog post for myself, so …

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Y’all It Is Happening

 My friends and I are kind of freaking out. via GIPHY We are all writing short stories for this anthology I’ve mentioned that will be available for purchase, both as an e-book or paperback, starting early next year! Four of us will be debut authors together in it–and we’ve been …

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Writing Long is Hard! No Writing Short is Hard!

I’m laughing at myself because my writing history is as an English major focused on British works, newspaper reporter and copy desk editor, TV and radio reporter and producer, digital media producer, business strategist, paid media and consumer strategy marketer, and brand strategist. Simplifying down a lot of moves and …

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The End

I finished my book! But I so didn’t. So what’s up now? This last haul to complete has been crazy. When I last wrote a blog, I was at the 50% mark, and it was the end of March. April and May were crazy–I had some really good days, but …

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Write First = 50% Complete!

As stated to my coworking group on our monthly goal-setting call last month in February, my goal was “Write First” every day for March. Because the days that I don’t get as much work completed on my novel are when I start on some other personal life task–finances, something for …

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What Else Can I Do? H/T Encanto

Y’all my kids have been singing Encanto on repeat. But I never dreamed it was going to help me with my creative endeavors. Lo and behold, about 2 weeks ago, I was deep in research because I had paused my writing when I thought maybe, just maybe, I was bullshitting …

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It’s a New Year Baby

You’ll probably see a bit less of me blogging or sending the newsletter, at least through April. I’m hyper-focused on minimizing distractions in my life and doing what matters most to me to achieve my goals. Or if I do post, I’ll try to make it short and to-the-point, a …

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We Did It!

I am so happy with how our writing retreat in Kiawah Island, SC went. Not only did we get a lot of words and a lot of work done, but my writing friend Keely and I also had a relaxing and wonderful time! First of all our travel magic (h/t …

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The Night B4 My Mini-Writing Retreat!

I am so excited I’m leaving tomorrow for a mini-writing retreat with another writing friend, staying for a long weekend in my rental condo in Kiawah Island, SC!!! Woo-Hoo!!! I was real productive the first 3 days of last week, with the last day even achieving close to 4000 words! …

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Pulling Teeth & No Nonsense

Writing for me lately has been like pulling teeth. I’ve been told time and time again that you can’t wait for your muse. See that time I saw my fave Nora Roberts talk at the Washington Post. You just have to practice BICHOK aka “Butt in Chair, Hands on Keyboard.” …

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Writing is Freaking Me Out

I’m writing, and it’s freaking me out. I’ve spent so many years working on this novel. And then so many months this year, reworking the plot and thinking through every angle. And editing the crap out of the new Chapter 1 to make sure I don’t make mistakes throughout. And …

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