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Category: writing
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Two Thumbs
Typing with my thumbs tends to devolve to a thumb and forefinger. Something about that works better than both thumbs. Dexterity? Motor control? Not really sure. Regardless, I am working on my phone and this is an interesting exercise. I could pull out my tiny Bluetooth keyboard, but I am at work and, well, trying…
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Is it Friday?
It’s been a morning. My son woke up late and asked for a ride to work. By the time I’d dressed and thought it through I realized that going home again made no sense. Drop him off. Get gas in the car. Buy breakfast and coffee and resist the urge for doughnuts. One of the…
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Odd Prompts: Chloe Snip
A snippet from the next Groundskeeper story, and my prompt challenge for the week. I’m gearing up the writing – frankly, we need the income. It was never supposed to take six months to complete this move, and two households drains even a decent reserve. So there will be publications rolling out from Sanderley…
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Warming Up
So the Little Man and I have been going to the gym. Living in a city, my usual resort of walking and hiking for exercise is just not an option – much to my deep frustration, but that’s a topic for another post when I’m not doing this – and the kid really needed some…
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The Game of Life
The inspiration of my short prompt response this week. Makes an interesting thought exercise, does it not?
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Open Call: Anthology
A few months ago I decided I was going to commit to being a Real Publisher. Part of that was driven by helping my friend and fellow author Misha Burnett bring his idea for Adventure Stories for Young Readers to life. That anthology is happening, the stories are in, he’s working on edits, and I…
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Odd Prompt: Honeymooners
I don’t know where this prompt is going, other than a very odd romance. *** Something borrowed, something blue, Something old, something new…. The something old hanging from the waist of her wedding gown had been her granny’s sewing scissors, the little silver ones shaped like a stork. Now, the long beak-blades bloody, it…
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Emotionally Intelligent Readers
We learn from reading. We develop skills to process the world around us, and our interactions with it. We can see models of human interconnection and decide what we should do, in similar settings. “we turn to stories. Stories provide us with a broad template. They outline a pattern specific enough to be of tremendous…
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Free Book
Cheep! Cheep! Ok, ok, it’s free… Cracked! A chicken anthology is a collection of chicken stories unlike anything you have read before. I have a story in it, which involves a swirling vortex of cluckers aboard a space station. It’s also an affectionate nod to my husband, the engineering technician. Go! Get your copy!…
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Story Science
Yesterday’s story – which ended with biochemically powered holographic displays – was inspired by real science. “For foods, holograms made with nanoparticles have been proposed, but the tiny particles can generate reactive oxygen species, which might be harmful for people to eat. In a different approach, food scientists have molded edible holograms onto chocolate,…
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Loose Ends
Me: I’ve got my chores done. House is clean. I’m supervising the boys playing and baking cookies so I can’t focus to write. First Reader: I’m going to suggest something radical. Reading. Pleasure reading. How about the crime book by Sayers you just bought? See, I was naughty on my way home from work Friday.…
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Good Monday
And a good Monday to you, my friend. May it be a productive one, and over quickly. I have a couple of things this morning, but I don’t have a lot of time to write much… because I am writing. I broke the long dry spell of three months (that’s a long spell for…