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Category: writing
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Soccer Mom
A complete short story that is not in my usual style. There is violence, gore, cursing, and death. Read at your own peril. Look, I’m not always about cute fluffy dragons, ok?
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Playing Dictionary
When I was a teenager I was introduced to a fun game at a youth event. Dictionary consisted of breaking up a group into teams. Each team would be given a word from a dictionary that no one in the group knew the definition for. Only one team would have the definition, and all the…
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The Strange Acquisition of the Sewing Desk
Adapt, improvise, and overcome. Some days, I do this more than others. I was thinking about juggling the other day, and how there are times I feel like I’m dropping balls all over. This blog, for instance, which has wandered from a daily flight up and over into the other hand, to rolling across the…
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Questionable Decisions
I haz them. I also have – for a while, at least – an office. So this is what happened… we own a little house that isn’t the one we’re living in. It’s a tiny house, frankly not in the best condition (needs modern windows, ceilings, um, other things), with a single bedroom and while…
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Quick, There’s No Time
There’s no time like the present. The past is a memory, the future doesn’t yet exist. If I don’t do this now, on this tiny speck of reality that is rippling through time in a constant that is always variable, it shall never exist. Time is the constant. I can alter other variables, but the…
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Distance gives Clarity
One lovely thing about staying with writers is that not only do they understand the desire to sit and write for a while, they also get the need to not be socializing in every waking moment. As a result, I’ve gotten a fair amount of writing progress done on this trip. In a very little…
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Brain Fuel
I’m beginning the last day of being in the north of Texas with my friends. I’m both looking forward to home, my husband, my children, and my bed, in that order. Of course, hearing the news from home yesterday that schools were closed, the First Reader was working from home, there was a half-inch of…
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Soccer Mom
A short story presented in full, with a warning: this is not my usual style. This is a military science fiction story with violence, gore, and cursing.
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Writing on the Go
I’m traveling this morning. Blogging is likely to be even more sporadic than usual for the next few days, but I intend to put stuff up here, even if it’s just photos of interesting stuff and snippets of what I’m writing. Warm-up words from the plane… I’m a writer. So? Write. It’s not that easy.…
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Photo Safari
My friend, fellow author, and fellow photographer Mark Alger invited me to join him on a photo safari through Cincinnati, and the First Reader and I were with him yesterday. I had a marvelous time shooting everything in sight (over 1000 images!) and listening to Mark talk about the history of each area. I’ve only…
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Cover Reveal!
I’m rather excited about this. It’s been a long, busy year, and I’d begun to wonder if I’d be able to release anything significant this year. Well, as I’m wrapping up Lab Gremlins, it’s looking like it will have a Halloween publication date. Only… There’s more to a book than the words which make up…
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Lab Gremlins Chapter Headings
A while back a colleague had commented that fun chapter headings were not completely outré in the Indie publishing world. Since I, too, have delightful memories of quirky chapter titles that gave you a tease of the content of that chapter, I thought I’d give in to my sense of whimsy and make the chapter…