Category: Random
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Not a Strong Working Day…
Some days are strong work days. You have focus. Drive. A really strong pot of coffee. Whatever. Some days are just not. Book 2, Draft 3 of the fantasy series is WIPping my ass. Most specifically, the last 1/3 of it. Looking back, I think I encountered similar issues with Book 1, Draft 3 of…
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The Inspiration
Or the Origin Story. Whichever. Characters have origin stories. Bob was born in a rail car outside Tampa during a rainstorm, his mother being attended to by three bears and an alien from the Crab Nebula, also named Bob, but pronounced “Jerome.” My origin story is not quite so awesome. I’ve run across people as…
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It’s Still Writing….
I’m taking time away from fiction writing for a bit (Relax, it’s just the next 2-3 weeks.) to work on a small paper and accompanying construction notes for a speculative medieval European style devil mask creation for an SCA Arts and Sciences display in the beginning of March. You look at me weird. “Huh?” I’m…
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Pity the Spouse of a Writer
My husband says I look like a different person when I write. Some days I sit and ponder, and he can smell the cranial smoke boiling out of my ears as my brain turns on the problem of removing as many occurrences of the the word “was” from a given chapter as possible. Other days…
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Unexpected Issues
I was going to spout off about EIN’s today, but my daughter is sick. She woke at 3am with a cough and fever. That means she’s staying home today. And my in-laws have hooked her on an insipid show involving singing vegetables. It’s already difficult writing when I have childroon chirping and demanding something every…
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Should – Shouldn’t; Would – Wouldn’t; Could – Couldn’t
Every once in a while (about every other day if I’m lucky, every other hour if I’m feeling particularly manic), I’m stricken with doubts about my writing and making it a BIG THING. A profession. A publicly viewed entity. I’m told that’s normal. I’m told a great many people cycle between “I am a genius…
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