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Category: writing
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Tanager’s Fledglings: Snippet 3
As always, this is a work in progress. All rights remain with me, and the finished product may vary from these samples. I will be taking most if not all the snippets down once the novel is published. Speaking of progress, it has been slow, but the novella which is a story set in this…
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Tanager’s Fledglings: Snippet 2
As always, this is a work in progress. All rights remain with me, and the finished product may vary from these samples. I will be taking most if not all the snippets down once the novel is published. Speaking of progress, it has been slow, but the novella which is a story set in this…
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Tanager’s Fledglings: Snippet 1
I may have snipped this before – actually, I think I have. Sorry for the repeat, but this is the official run-up to the novel. It has been edited and altered from the original opening scenes since I decided to take a plotted short story and blow it all the way up into novel, and…
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Checking In
I’m not going to write a long blog post today, and I’m not apologizing for it. The reason is that I’m writing this morning – it’s going slow, but I’ve managed a thousand words around the morning routine (the dog’s, not mine, which can be accomplished at the keyboard mostly. Hers involves about six trips…
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Reading, Writing, and Priming the Pump
Since the end of school, I’ve been catching up on my reading. It’s been a pleasant two days, so far, and today winds up my scheduled ‘break’ before I kick off a summer writing frenzy. At first I was reading for the sheer joy of having time I could waste on books that made me…
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WIP Snippet
#amwriting I’ve been trying to write daily, and… well, I’ve been writing every other day. Since writing and blogging today just wasn’t going to happen, you’re getting a snippet of what I wrote today. It’s not a beginning, it’s part of a story but a chapter or two in, and I haven’t written the beginning…
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Juggling running chainsaws, machetes, and lit torches
Writing is an effort. I’ve likened putting a finished ms out for publication to giving birth, but perhaps the better comparison would be to sending a kid to college. After all, gestation in the womb is a largely unconscious process. Writing is anything but. We plot and plan and think for hours. I am a…
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Art and Amusements
My Spring Break has started – started yesterday afternoon, actually. I’m at Millennicon this weekend, and I hung my first pieces in my first Art Show. I don’t have pictures, you’re not allowed to take photos in the art show. I can tell you I have already learned one lesson – one 3×4′ panel is…
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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Expectations
Written by Sanford Begley I’m reading the second book by a new author. I won’t tell you who because it doesn’t matter. I have barely started it and am already disappointed. Not because it isn’t a good book, it is so far. And not because it isn’t as well written as the first, actually I…
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The Silk Road
The silk road stories fire my imagination. It was the first time in human history that markets were no longer constrained to how far a person could walk in a day or two. The sheer doggedness of the traders who opened the various routes, the stories that are long forgotten, the hidden traces archaeologists sometimes…
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Research and the Art of Enough
I was mugged last week by a story. It’s definitely one of mine, I knew that from the beginning. What I wasn’t sure of, at first, was where it fit into my plans. I have plans, darn-it, and… oh.. ok. The light finally dawned. This is the third book I’d planned to write in the…