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That Kind of Weekend
It’s just been that kind of weekend. The air conditioner is on the fritz, the handle on one of the toilets broke, I destroyed a sweater in the wash, and Sweetpea thought Grandpa’s new car was a great...
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Slow Motion
The editing of LIFE OF A FOUNDRY MOTH has been going as fast as molasses in winter. Even bribing myself with M&Ms for each page I tackle isn’t making much of a difference. I find myself hemming and...
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My Writing Process = Chaos!
This post is part of a blog tour series in which writers answer a set of four questions about their writing process, then tag other writers to keep it going the following week. Many thanks to my good...
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The Distractions of Writing
There are a lot of demands on my time. It’s a scarce commodity, and likely I’m not the only person in this boat, right? I felt like a writing goddess yesterday when I got six solid pages of...
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Listen to Your Friends
My writing process post on Monday was rather verbose. Apologies to anyone trampled by the inordinate number of words charging off the screen. You can talk to the imaginary horses about the property...
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Shiny New Musical Toys
First, I want to give some shout outs today to my fellow Dragon*Con writers Doug Danridge and Barbara Evers. They have posted their Writing Process blogs this week, and I’m so glad they decided to...
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Geek Week: How Real Is Fiction?
Most readers* can agree that Harry Potter and Katniss Everdeen aren’t “real” in the walking around and paying taxes like other citizens sense of the word, but we all know who they are. We know what...
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Saturday Summertime Music Playlist
Music is a huge part of my creative process, whether it is grooving in the car thinking up new ideas or playing the same songs over and over to catch a mood for a particular scene. Sometimes I obsess...
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My Oldest Story
When I was going through a box from my parents’ house, I found some of my old stories. These are the first stories I wrote with serious intent in middle school and high school. Among them was a faded...
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My Oldest Story Redux
Picking up from my previous post about the oldest story I still have (but have no recollection of), I want to go through the exercise of fixing it up for the 21st century. Your thoughts, opinions, and...
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Gimme Sympathy
How do you make your characters more or less sympathetic? Why would you want to change how sympathetic a character is to the reader? I have been working on how to make Nissa, a selfish thief and...
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My Writing Group Experience
I took the plunge in the last month and joined a local critique group to get some feedback about my works-in-progress. My inner critic and I have been spending lots of time together, so I was ready...
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Saturday Music Playlist
Music is a huge part of my creative process, whether it is grooving in the car thinking up new ideas or playing the same songs over and over to catch a mood for a particular scene. Sometimes I obsess...
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Thinking with Scissors
Today, I wanted to respond to various and sundry pieces of the internet. Hope you don’t mind my piecemeal approach to this post (and I’ve always loved the word “sundry,” don’t you?). Most Annoying...
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Hachette vs. Amazon: The Petitioning
Welcome to round two in the Hachette vs. Amazon kerfuffle. Forgive the post title, but this feels like the bad sequel to a movie blockbuster dud. They followed the formula, should have made and...
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And This Time I’m Serious
Like everyone else, I have weeks where I am engaged with my writing, where there is something that approximates a schedule and a sense of regularity… And then there was today… (Sorry, I’m enjoying this...
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My Thoughts on Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited
Amazon did a thing. Let’s talk about it. I don’t want to debate whether or not this is good or evil because it’s not going to change what Amazon has done or will do in the future. I just want to...
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Saturday Music Playlist
Music is a huge part of my creative process, whether it is grooving in the car thinking up new ideas or playing the same songs over and over to catch a mood for a particular scene. Sometimes I obsess...
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I’m Not a Completionist
I learned some things about myself this weekend. Well, I can’t say it was a big surprise since I have been living with myself for 29 years. (Okay, I might be counting 29 more than once, but let’s just...
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News from the Publishing Hinterlands
I’m rounding up the news this week, which consists of a kickstarter for a new science fiction and fantast magazine as well as some more fun publishing industry drama. Grab the popcorn kids! Uncanny...
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