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Category: writing
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Plotting
#amwriting and I have a question for you… The First Reader and I spent about 6 hours yesterday in a car together. We are both exhausted today, and feeling slightly hungover. These trips are worth it, to see his parents and we love doing them, but the driving takes a toll. On the other hand,…
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Rebooting my Brain
I’m blogging over at Mad Genius Club today on how I’m going to get back into the swing of writing after this long break. I’m back. I didn’t mean to take two weeks off from blogging, but that’s what it ended up being. It’s not that I haven’t written anything in two weeks, just that…
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Blast From the Past: Endings and Lengths
I arrived in Ohio on May 19, 2013. I can’t believe two years have gone by, it seems like the blink of an eye… I finished my second novel yesterday. By that I do not mean that I will never touch it again, because there is a whole lot of work left to be done…
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Blast from the Past: Building Blocks
More legos. I really ought to get some. The little man can play with them this summer. Yeah, that’s a good reason *shifty eyes* So I’m stuck. I get stuck all the time, looking at this vast lego-block looming in front of me, making me feel like my mind is blank because all I can…
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Blast From the Past: Fling Open the Gates
I’ll begin this with two myths. First, that books and publishing need gatekeepers. This could be applied to oh, so much more in life, but I will stop there. The other, that gatekeepers must have the ‘right credentials’ or indeed, that anyone involved with writing must have them, from authors to editors to… whatever role…
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Blast from the Past: Kinetic Stories
This is part of the series I am republishing while I finish out the school year. Enjoy! “I get great ideas all the time. And promptly forget ’em. Ideas are like raindrops in the Pacific Northwest. Grains of sand in the Sahara. Plenty out there. It’s the Butt in Chair time that distinguishes writers from…
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Writer’s Heaven
No, I don’t mean haven, I really do mean heaven. I was reading James Schmitz last night and this morning. One of the things about reading with my tablet is that when I want to read in a dark room, I can. And then when I wake up but don’t have to get right out…
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ETWYRT: Tom Kratman
(mirror-posted from the Otherwhere Gazette because I have an Organic Chemistry exam) Today’s reading and recipe come from Tom Kratman, best known for his military science fiction and alternative history books. I’ve been reading Kratman since his first book and his skills have grown exponentially since that endeavour. When I asked him for a dish,…
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a Pro at a Con
James Young was kind enough to offer me a guest post today, on the fun of being an author-vendor at a large con.
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Random Nibbles
Here’s a little, there’s a little… I’m head down in a research project at the moment. I’ll share this weekend. For now, I have a round-up of (mostly) food related articles for my readers to peruse. Food Anthropology Lengthy and interesting article on food, people, and the interconnections. We have to eat; we like to…
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ETWYRT: Toni Weisskopf
I have Buckeyes, the chocolate covered peanut butter candy, on tap over at Otherwhere Gazette this morning, recipe courtesy of Toni Weisskopf. Click here for recipe.
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Dionaea
I know I got a couple of questions about the name I chose for the villainess in Dragon Noir. For naming the fairies in the Pixie for Hire series, I used a loose system based a little bit on Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. You know, Peaseblossom and Mustard Seed… For female fairies, who control the…