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Category: Life

  • Summer Break

    Summer Break is here, which means that my little monkeys are at home. All the time. We’re not that far in and it’s already driving me nuts. This is the last summer for the super-cheap local Day-Camp held by the community center, starting in June and running through July. Next summer, they will be too…

  • Too… Something?

    I haven’t written since the day before the bomb cyclone in March. I was actually winding down, anyway – not because I was done with the particular book, but because I was struggling again. Then my laptop, while functional, has been giving me increasing amounts of electronic geriatric attitude, so it needed to be replaced…

  • No More Battery Juice

    I made a goal in August 2015 to rough out, from start to finish, Fantasy book 3, by Christmas 2015. I knew it was a bit of a quagmire, but I already had 250 pages of notes and scenes scribbled out, and I knew where I wanted the story to go and what I needed…

  • IWSG April

    I’m a wee bit behind on my postings. Last week was Spring Break and the monkeys were home and, and, and. Anyhoo, April 2019 IWSG prompt isn’t blowing up my skirt.  Only ONE wish to suss out ONE writing thing, like a single chapter or a specific type of scene? I’ll tell you what my…

  • I’m Going To Kill Him….

    I love him. No, really. I do. Sometimes. Just not when he’s irritating me. Like today. He has a day off and I’m trying to work on something. I’m trying to work on a writing something. It’s a fight scene. This isn’t something you can just rough out and heavily edit later to make it…

  • AIC

    I was sick all last week. Like coughing so hard I was throwing up sick. Like lying on the couch and living the whole day in a partial doze sick. Like writing or checking email is impossible because I have to save what little mental energy I have for checking math homework sick. The only…