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Tag: writing
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Two down, two to go
I came out of LibertyCon with invitations to participate in three anthologies. I was very excited about that – Sunday evening at the con, when it was all but over and the last casual groups were hanging out soaking up some social time with friends we might not see again for a long time, I…
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Tempus Fugit
I’m back to chasing the cursor. Once, it was the blank page that challenged me, waiting for the graphite or ink to be spread over it in symbols that could be sounded out into meaningful patterns. Now, it’s the cursor flying across the screen, sometimes backward to correct an errant finger, but mostly onward, ever…
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Blind Writing
Sometimes pulling words out of my head is as hard as pulling teeth. I sit here for long, silent moments before I finally get the fingers into motion and make words come out. And even then, it might only be in an exercise like this, where the brain feels fuzzy and empty, like a warm…
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Hold That Thought
Or: The Fine Art of being Interrupted Constantly whilst trying to write a coherent docum… what do you want now? The dog’s throwing up!? oh for… Ahem. I am the proud mother of four bright children, and I love them very, very much. I’m also the dog mommy of my First Reader’s poochella, and of…
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Not NaNo
I’m not doing National Novel Writing Month. But it is November, and I’m committing to a daily writing session. This morning, for instance, I managed to get out about 1200 words before work. I might get a few more tonight, but that will depend on variables. There are a lot of variables in life, and…
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Bringing Life
I’ve been working on writing. It’s slow, because right now I’m re-reading and editing, which adds words to the overall total (The East Witch weighs in at 27K out of a planned 100K for perspective) but not a lot. What it does is breathes life into the story for me again. My problem right now…
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Pursuing Passions
I write. That’s the point of the blog. I also create art, take photos, and learn. I’m passionate about all of those, but they have ups and downs. It’s my birthday, and I’ve been thinking about the future and what lies there, just out of sight. I was listening to a podcast by professional photographer…
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Reader Input Requested
I looked back at the blog for the last couple of weeks, and realized that I have been meandering all over the map. It is reflective, perhaps, of my state of mind as I’ve been dealing with life outside of work, and coping with emergencies. However, I’m sure it’s not what you all want to…
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Progress Report
I meant to write first thing this morning. I mean, I meant to blog first thing this morning. I wrote, instead. I’ve been working on a short story and I’m nearing the climax of that. So I’m excited about it and wanting to finish it off so I can send it to the editor of…
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Writing Life
I woke up this morning with a start. I hadn’t written my weekly Mad Genius post. So I hopped out of bed, grabbed my tablet, and went back to bed. There, I propped myself on my pillow and wrote for a bit less than an hour. Sheer decadence, if you think about it. The First…
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Forcing Fiction
Or: How to Coax your Brain into Cooperating This is a two-part post, in which the parts are related, but different techniques will work best. Actually, different techniques will work for each person, since we’re all motivated uniquely. There are, however, some human commonalities that I can tap into which might help spark an idea……
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A World with no Research
I’m a writer, and I live, breathe, and eat research most of the time. Tasty, tasty research, in some cases. But that’s a different blog post. A lot of my friends are also writers, and they understand this. But what if you couldn’t research? I’m writing this post from a dead time at work, while…