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Tag: writing
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Repetition
Some days it seems like parenting consists of saying the same thing over and over and over and… Some days I know for a fact that is what parenting is. And still, they don’t listen. Except when I start in on the ‘so help me…!’ and then they want to know what? I try not…
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Making a Gear Shift
My daughter and I were talking recently about learning to drive. She’s very excited about it, at the same time concerned over getting it right, and we were talking about shifting gears. I don’t know, she told me, when I need to shift gears. And how many gears are there? Four, five? We got the…
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I’m here
I’m just writing. I took the time this weekend to read back through and create a ‘bible’ of this work in progress, as I’ll be writing the final part this week, and needed to be sure I was tying up some loose ends, and reprising others to set the whole series up. Once that was…
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Time Wasters
I’m supposed to be writing. I’m wanting to write. I am trying to write… Oh, who am I kidding. I’m avoiding writing like it’s the pneumonic plague. So far this morning I’ve cleaned the living room, complete with rearranging furniture and setting up the Homeschool Desk (this needed to be done, yes, but…). I’ve started…
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Crossing the Line
James Young is guesting over at the Mad Genius Club today with a post on lines authors should think hard about before crossing, and it’s a lengthy but worthwhile read. “Y’all talk about torturing your characters… are there any lines you won’t cross?” Well…you’d have thought I’d been handing out briefcases of cash with complimentary…
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Tanager’s Fledglings: Snippet 1
I may have snipped this before – actually, I think I have. Sorry for the repeat, but this is the official run-up to the novel. It has been edited and altered from the original opening scenes since I decided to take a plotted short story and blow it all the way up into novel, and…
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Fanboy Expo and Other Plans
This weekend I will be in Knoxville, working with the lovely Mystik Waboose at her booth at Fanboy Expo. You can find me, my books, and some super geeky t-shirts there all three days. I don’t have a booth number – I’ll try to update that once I know, more likely on social media than…
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Rescuing the Hero
I made a rash comment a while back, and a combination of ‘brainnnzzz’ due to traveling and my usual tendency to write in mental shorthand (which drives my editors crazy too) meant that my thoughts came out garbled. So I decided I’d better unpack what I meant and make it clearer. Hopefully clear enough to…
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Checking In
I’m not going to write a long blog post today, and I’m not apologizing for it. The reason is that I’m writing this morning – it’s going slow, but I’ve managed a thousand words around the morning routine (the dog’s, not mine, which can be accomplished at the keyboard mostly. Hers involves about six trips…
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Reading, Writing, and Priming the Pump
Since the end of school, I’ve been catching up on my reading. It’s been a pleasant two days, so far, and today winds up my scheduled ‘break’ before I kick off a summer writing frenzy. At first I was reading for the sheer joy of having time I could waste on books that made me…
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Research and the Art of Enough
I was mugged last week by a story. It’s definitely one of mine, I knew that from the beginning. What I wasn’t sure of, at first, was where it fit into my plans. I have plans, darn-it, and… oh.. ok. The light finally dawned. This is the third book I’d planned to write in the…