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Category: writing
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I’m here
I’m just writing. I took the time this weekend to read back through and create a ‘bible’ of this work in progress, as I’ll be writing the final part this week, and needed to be sure I was tying up some loose ends, and reprising others to set the whole series up. Once that was…
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Time Wasters
I’m supposed to be writing. I’m wanting to write. I am trying to write… Oh, who am I kidding. I’m avoiding writing like it’s the pneumonic plague. So far this morning I’ve cleaned the living room, complete with rearranging furniture and setting up the Homeschool Desk (this needed to be done, yes, but…). I’ve started…
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Gone Astray
It’s the first of November. I find myself, on this chilly morning, watching all my friends make plans to write extra hard this month, and I have to make myself write some things down. But those things are the reasons I cannot, absolutely cannot, write fiction this month. I want to. I want to so…
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Ramblings and a Movie Review of Sorts
This is a post full of links for those who want to follow them, and also a post of ‘I’m alive!’ for those who were wondering. This last week was more than manageably busy. On the upside, my daughters have enjoyed their first (note: the Jr Mad Scientist informed me that for her, LibertyCon wasn’t…
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Crossing the Line
James Young is guesting over at the Mad Genius Club today with a post on lines authors should think hard about before crossing, and it’s a lengthy but worthwhile read. “Y’all talk about torturing your characters… are there any lines you won’t cross?” Well…you’d have thought I’d been handing out briefcases of cash with complimentary…
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Grist for the Mill
As a writer, I find that if I am not constantly feeding my brain, the creative well will run dry. Right now, life has been busy enough that even with school starting, the brain has been starving. This will change quickly, I know, as next week all my classes will be in session and in…
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Tickyboxes
written by Sanford Begley I hate tickyboxes. You all know them, a checklist of things in a book or movie that has to be checked off. In SF, and really most fiction these days, you must fit a set of tickyboxes. You are required to have at least one LGBTWTFBBQ character in a good role,…
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Chaos Whirlwind
This last couple of weeks I keep comparing to living in a chaos whirlwind. The odd thing is, I’m starting to see that when the wind finally dies down and leaves calm in it’s wake, there will be more order than when it began. Years ago when we would play games as a family, we…
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Tanager’s Fledgling: Snippet 5
As always, this is a snippet. All rights remain with me, you may freely share the post, but the content is mine. This is a rough draft. There will be errors, typos, and other issues. There may be significant changes before publication. Enjoy! Snippet 1 Snippet 2 Snippet 3 Snippet 4 Altressa was closer to…
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The Reader Makes the Book
I’ve known for a long time that every reader sees a book differently. I may really enjoy a book that makes you want to hold your nose with one hand and gingerly pick it up with thumb and forefinger of the other hand to transport rapidly to the trash. It’s part of the reason I…
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Snippet 4: Tanager’s Fledglings
I’m really late with this. I’ve been up to my elbows in housework and I still have a ways to go until it’s all done. The next few days will be a little shaky around the blog as I’ll be focused on family life and traveling. I don’t really have an update on this –…