Category: Random
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IWSG April
When your writing life is a bit cloudy or filled with rain, what do you do to dig down and keep on writing? Hey, now – No one said these questions were going to get personal. I think it depends on HOW is my writing life cloudy – Are we talking about “I have no…
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IWSG March
How do you celebrate when you achieve a writing goal/ finish a story? Generally, I don’t. I’m too exhausted, filled with so much euphoria I feel like I’m floating and there are about 80 other things that are time-sensitive that Mommy has to do before bed. Well. That was a short answer. I, uh, guess…
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IWSG February
What do you love about the genre you write in most often? Oooo…. I’m a fantasy girl. Always have been. Magic is awesome. Dragons are cool. Castles and swords and spells, oh my! World building from scratch is probably the easiest thing (for me). The problem stems from my obsessive need for detail. If I…
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The (Early) IWSG First Post of 2018 and Obligatory New Year’s Post
Lose Weight! Get in Shape! Get out of Debt! Travel! Burn My Ex’s House Down! Write! Leran to Splel! Get My Math On! Publish! Ahhhh, the New Year. Full of possibility and hope. I haven’t really thought about it that way for a while. My time sense in the last few years has become narrowed…
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IWSG October
Have you ever slipped any of your personal information into your characters, either by accident or on purpose? What? You mean like hair color? Previous work experience? Conversations? Isn’t that what research is? Here’s a counter-question: How do you write a story with believable characters if you DON’T? An example: The character is described as…
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2017 School Year Resolution
*This s a long and perhaps self-pitying post. If you choose to skip it, I wouldn’t blame you.* Starting at around spring break, this summer has been 4 Iron Man competitions and an Olympic Pentathlon crammed into the course of a full marathon, run at a sprint while juggling live squid. Occasionally a clown chases…
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