Category: Random
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ISWG March Post
March 1 Question: Have you ever pulled out a really old story and reworked it? Did it work out? Heh. I have a trilogy that I started when I was 12 and finished when I was 27. Each book runs in the neighborhood of 100,000 words. I’d like to think that it shows determination and…
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Bad Days
I’ve been having a run of bad days that have been ceaselessly piling up on top of each other. I can track the most recent and notable ones back to about October 2016, and the bigger, even more obvious ones indicating something was not on the level at about February 2016, but the discreet events…
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IWSG Post
I’m taking a tap-out today. My head is in a less than awesome space. So we shall answer this month’s hot, HOT, SIZZLING HOT IWSG 1st Wednesday prompt: How has being a writer changed your experience as a reader? Badly, sad to say. I’m very detail-oriented by nature. I may have ranted about that in…
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Looking at How I’m Going to Get There
One of my personal self-publishing heroes is Kristine Kathryn Rusch. If you haven’t read her posts, especially her Wednesday Business Musings, you are seriously missing out. (I would donate or do the Patreon thing to support her if I could, by my own financial demands are such that I can’t at this moment in time.…
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IWSG Post
IWSG Question Jan 4 What writing rule do you wish you’d never heard? Ummm … all of them? Don’t get me wrong, there does need to be a baseline for communication in any language – In the English language, you really do have to put the verb in the right place – “Jane ran with…
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Resisting Technological Advances – A Tale As Old As Time
I am a luddite. Some technological changes do not please me. I do not like the cloud. I do not like e-books. I do not like streaming music/videos. All of this has to do with the fact that I prefer physical possession of media. I enjoy scribbling notes in my books. I notice I don’t…
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