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Category: writing
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Saturday Snippet: Pixie Noir
Pixie Noir is scheduled to be released Dec. 1, 2013. Now, that’s an exciting sentence for me. You might not understand it unless you read my blog regularly and know that it’s my second novel, and I’m really happy with it. Even better, my beta readers have liked it. Yesterday evening I sent it off…
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Sunday Snippets
Hello and welcome to Cedar’s demesnes… Here I will be posting snippets of Pixie Noir every Sunday, approximately a chapter at a time, until the release date, Dec. 1. Which means that you will get to read the first third of the book for free! Enjoy, let me know what you think, and check back…
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Free Fantasy Story
From today, through Friday, “The Dwarf’s Dryad” will be available free on Amazon! If you like fantasy, stories with a little romance, and a lot of intrigue, check this tale out. After all, it’s free, what do you have to lose? Don’t forget, after you read it, if you liked it, tip the author with…
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Troll Valley
Troll Valley Lars Walker’s books are endlessly interesting, well-researched, and I know I will enjoy them. This one is a young adult novel, and after my post on According to Hoyt today, I feel the need to promote some good reads for young people. His protagonist doesn’t have an easy life, with a physical disability,…
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Connotation
“an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.” When we use words, there is all kinds of baggage that goes along with each of our selections. Like a kid walking in the door and throwing their backpack on the couch, we might not always welcome that luggage,…
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Beautiful Things
I’ve been around. From Sea to Shining Sea, from the plains to the Rocky Mountains, to the northern muskegs. It’s fitting, today of all days, to remember just how big our country is. If you’ve lived all your life in just one place (and there are few of us in these wealthy, priviliged days who…
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A Blog, Longhand
Cross-Posted at Amazing Stories I usually compose on the computer. Normally, looking at my writing blog, you all see a rough draft, essentially. I type it, scan it, and press publish. I type into the WordPress box, and you get my train of thought, derailments and all. Rarely, you get one of what I consider…
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I owe, I owe…
Not money, per se, but time, and attention, and… I’d promised at least three updates a week on the blog, and a review on Fridays. I don’t know if I’m going to manage a review for tomorrow. I have homework, and I plan a field trip that will take a large part of the day,…
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Hating Hemingway
I loathe Hemingway. The only times I have read his work has been when required to do so for school. I had to read The Old Man and the Sea way back in the dark ages of time, when I was in elementary school (yes, really. Look, I was homeschooled, and my mother was perfectly…
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Young Science Fiction
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I’m working on a short story today, about a boy and his dog… and the boy’s spaceship. Then Dave Freer posted this: Zamzummims, where he laments the loss of Science Fiction Giants in the world of the young. We need writers who can give our children wonder, adventure, and a solid science in their fiction.…
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Amazing Art
I don’t have a lot of time today, but my dear First Reader sent me this link this morning and I spent some enraptured time looking at each one. Amazing, and evocative. I could write stories based off these. Simon Stalenhag’s Art