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Category: writing
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Cover Reveal!
I plan to publish this one during the first week of August, but this is what the cover will likely look like. Feel free to drop your thoughts in the comments, I always appreciate feedback. Detective Amaya Lombard is a witch hunter and a damn good one. Hated by the magical because she works with…
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Life is Muddy Waters
Life is long, and boring, and confusing, and painful, and goes by too fast, and far too exciting, except when it isn’t and it’s all very opaque. I got to get out on the river yesterday, for what was not only my first time in a kayak, but to help with Stream Quality Monitoring…
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Progress Report
I meant to write first thing this morning. I mean, I meant to blog first thing this morning. I wrote, instead. I’ve been working on a short story and I’m nearing the climax of that. So I’m excited about it and wanting to finish it off so I can send it to the editor of…
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Just Keep Writing, Writing, Writing
So the power is back on. But more important, since that was an upleasant couple of days I really don’t want to relive now (I’ll come back to it later with a post on big business and customer service), I’ve been writing. I have completed Snow in Her Eyes, which came in at 17K words.…
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Morning, But No Serial
I was contemplating serializing a novellette on the website – basically publishing it in 1500 word segments, then when it was complete, taking all those posts down and publishing it. This would, in theory, have given my readers here a freebie. But there wasn’t much interest, and after chatting with a friend and fellow reader,…
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Writing Life
I woke up this morning with a start. I hadn’t written my weekly Mad Genius post. So I hopped out of bed, grabbed my tablet, and went back to bed. There, I propped myself on my pillow and wrote for a bit less than an hour. Sheer decadence, if you think about it. The First…
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Forcing Fiction
Or: How to Coax your Brain into Cooperating This is a two-part post, in which the parts are related, but different techniques will work best. Actually, different techniques will work for each person, since we’re all motivated uniquely. There are, however, some human commonalities that I can tap into which might help spark an idea……
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A World with no Research
I’m a writer, and I live, breathe, and eat research most of the time. Tasty, tasty research, in some cases. But that’s a different blog post. A lot of my friends are also writers, and they understand this. But what if you couldn’t research? I’m writing this post from a dead time at work, while…
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Nothing Much to See
I’m sitting here staring at the screen again. I had a blog post starting to come together in my head earlier… and now it’s gone. On the other hand, I’m sleepy, and after not being able to sleep last night, that’s a good thing. Ok, that’s hyperbole. I did sleep. Just not as much as…
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Repost: Chaplain’s War
To my dismay, I discovered when a reader brought it to my attention that this was one of the posts that fell into the ‘blog hole’ when I switched browsers. It’s definitely a book worth reading, so again, I commend it to your attention… I have been working on this book since… longer than I…
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Checking In
I’ve had a lovely week off between contracts, and today it’s back to work. I don’t know what to expect – I don’t even know my hours, yet! But I am trying to get the blog onto something approaching a schedule, again. I’d meant to do so much – including prepping blog posts – this…
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Morning Musings
I sat here for a long moment this morning staring at the blank expanse of the composition box in WordPress. I didn’t know what to say. I’m a bit sleepy yet, but have to walk out the door for work in mere moments, and I wanted to share my Mad Genius Club post with you…