Category: Random
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My New “Collaborative Partner”
My writing has taken to an uptick which I enjoy. My 10 year old son Daniel has noticed that I’m writing again and has asked questions about it (“what are you stuck on? what’ s the story about?” And even though I’m sugarcoating medieval style warfare and domestic issues in the interests of pagecount, it…
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Of Books and Boogers
Fantasy book 3 is being a booger. An irritating booger. Like that booger that immediately freezes in your nose the moment you step outside in the cold temperatures and stabs your sinuses with its boogery icicle finger booger. That same booger that just as quickly thaws when you go back inside to the nice mosty-toasty…
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IWSG February
Besides writing what other creative outlets do you have? Oy. This is not going to be a paragraphy thing, but more listy. Some of these I’ve done for years, and others I’ve only started trying out. Some items I’m half-way decent at, others I don’t spend enough time or dedication on to turn out more…
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Flailing
A few years ago I’d constructed some decorative bead strings for some friends of mine in the SCA. I’d given them out and had three left and with the destruction of one that hung on my purse, I was left with two that just kinda sat there until the other day I was seized with…
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Starting 2019
There’s actual snow on the ground. I live in Colorado, and, sad to say, snow is a rarity anymore. But even an inch of snow on New Year’s Day is lends hope for the coming year. Misplaced hope, perhaps, but hope none the less. 2018 has been an eventful year. Some of it good, some…
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Fear
Fear is an interesting thing. We all have different fears – heights, pain, children, dentists, clowns, ketchup stains and so on – but we all have some of the same fears, too. Failure is a biggie, but in my experience, it isn’t just “failure” that’s the problem. It’s the consequences of failure that we’re afraid…
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