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Category: writing
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State of the Writer: Drained
I haven’t been writing. I need to be editing, I haven’t been doing that, either. I’ve just been tired. Which is ok. I’m not beating myself up over this. Yes, I wanted to be writing every day this year. But writing is on the back burner for the duration, so I refuse to set myself…
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LTUE AAR: Day 2 and 3
My friend and fellow troub…. er, author, James Young, challenged me a bit to finish this up in his look back at LTUE. It’s been, in my defense, a very busy couple of weeks. And in many ways I am still digesting everything I crammed into my head over the course of three short but…
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Game Review and a (sort-of) Recipe
I will admit I’ve been pushing to play this game for a while, and the kids were a bit dubious. I don’t blame them – it’s more my topic than theirs. We have several versions of Fluxx, and have had more over the years that got lost along the way – Pirate Fluxx, Zombie Fluxx…
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Journals
I own a lot of journals. There’s a meme going around about writers and unused journals, pens and other paraphernalia and I feel so called out. But really, as an artist and a writer, journals, sketchbooks, markers, pens… all tools of the trade. Many of mine are cheap and utilitarian, but once in a while…
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2019 LTUE AAR: Day 1
I arrived in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, and after acquiring a rental car – pro-tip, don’t rent from a company whose name you do not recognize, and whose location is far, far off airport. I would not have expected SLC to have a barrio, but I know where it is, now. I was very…
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The Accidental Novel
I did not intend for this story to become a full novel. My plan, and the Muse laughed, was to write another novella as a loose sequel to Snow in Her Eyes, and then another one after that, before finally writing bridges for the three to create a single novel. Yeah. Plans are great, but…
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Walk Through the Door and Hit the Ground Running
It’s February. How did that happen? Oh, right, the Earth revolves around the sun and every day/night cycle we’re a day older, will we, nill we. This last month has been… productive. Very productive. The downside of that is that I feel like I’ve been through the whirlwind and dumped out on my head, but…
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New Year, New Name
So I’m getting ready to renovate a few things around here. One, and the biggest, the one that has been holding me back is simply picking a name. From the beginning, my publishing imprint had a name, one that was based in a life that shifted drastically. After the upheaval, in the new landscape, I was…
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Writing Walking Desk
So I am writing this from the new walking desk setup. It’s the most redneck thing, but it’s working for comfortable keyboard height while walking, albeit at a slooow 1.3 mph currently. And it will be a heckuva workout if I do a lot of it, because I’m using a tread climber, which is basically…
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Dad’s Sticky Buns
So my Dad was never one to cook or clean (sorry, Dad, but it’s truth!) so when he did cook, I remember it well. This is one of the things he’d make when I was a kid, as a surprise breakfast. We loved it, but we definitely didn’t love cleaning up after it. Sticky isn’t…
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New Year, New Goals
I started trying something new today. Well, it’s not really a new year’s resolution. It’s more of a new year, new goal. Similar to the last goal, only… Only this time I’m implementing a few tools to try and make the goal more reachable. The problem with a resolution – or, for that matter, a…
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Precision and Accuracy
I may have written an essay about this topic before, but you know, I think it bears revisiting. For one thing, every time I write about something, I am coming back to it with deeper understanding, more experience, and a changed outlook. I can’t help it, really. Time is not static, therefore neither am I.…