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Category: Ok here’s what were gonna do
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The New Schedule and other Housekeeping
Now that I am both recovered from traveling and have begun school again, it’s time to address the blog. I’d decided a while back I wasn’t going to be able to keep up the daily schedule if I was going to write fiction productively. So in 2016 there will be a new blog schedule, as…
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Happy New Year!
I didn’t stay up to midnight, but I awakened late this morning after a good night’s sleep, refreshed and ready for the new year. I’ll be re-evaluating the blog schedule, and posting that over the weekend. Comments and suggestions welcome, but I will say that I’m not going to do a daily this coming year,…
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Safely Traveled
We left our house at ten in the evening, with the intention of driving straight through to New Hampshire for a family Christmas. We made it… around 5:30 pm the next day. Thoughts from the trip. The NY toll road is long. Very very long, especially when you do most of it in the dark…
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One More Day
I’m still here, I’m just up to my elbows in study materials. Since I’m fairly sure that’s only interesting to me and a handful of other people in my class (none of whom read my blog) I’ve refrained from muttering about it too much. Tomorrow evening I have the last of the exams and after…
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A Matter of Scheduling
I am in the throes of getting ready for Finals – the first exam is tomorrow afternoon – and have about three projects due tomorrow and tonight. So this will be brief. The First Reader asked me when I came in from Math class, after I’d informed him I will be eating, drinking, and breathing…
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Put it on my Tab
Open Tabs on my Browser: Writer, Market, Reader I’m up at Mad Genius Club today, talking about what makes a real writer (versus what, a fake writer?) and exploring new markets. There’s a fine balance between writing what you want to write, and writing what a reader will want to read. Then, you have to…
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Mocha Morning
I have coffee most mornings. This morning: mocha. It’s dark outside. Who turned off the lights? I have an exam this week, so I shan’t be around much, I’m studying spectroscopy and memorizing instrument components. Last night I started reading Mike Kupari’s Her Brother’s Keeper. So far? Homages to Drake, H Beam Piper, and Williamson.…
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Update
I have been under the weather. Hopefully today will see the end of that, or tomorrow. At that point I should be able to get back to what I usually do here on the blog. In the meantime, I’m doing as I’m told and resting.
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State of the Writer’s mind: Jello
So I’d been studying for an exam, prepping calculations and data for chemistry, and reviewing the lab for tomorrow, and it occurred to me I hadn’t blogged. Whoops… You could check out what the First Reader has to say about being late on geek time. Or you could read a really hilarious article on Jello.…
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Muzzled Redux
It has become clear this week that I must explain further, I am not allowed to simply retreat into the shadows without making one thing clear: I am not ashamed of this fight. The opponents who have been doing their best to smear everyone involved with Sad Puppies IV cannot claim a victory here: they have…
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Insert Tab A…
I’m hoping to write today. A lot. I have a novella I want to be done. So in aid of that, and since I did write a nice bit of words for the article on public reactions to self-publishing over at the Mad Genius Club today (which I highly recommend, because it’s not all my…
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Distress, Disruption, and the Artist
Pat Patterson asked this question elsewhere, and it got me thinking. “Authors and other artists: When things are really going poorly for you, how does that show up in your work? What about when things are going well?” My immediate answer to this was ‘when I’m sick, I can’t work’ which is entirely true, but…