Category: Random
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A is for Amore
Why Writing is Like a Relationship Ah, Amore. Love. It’s the first thing that you have to have to make a relationship work. It also helps a lot when you’re working on a manuscript. There are different levels of love in a relationship: just friends, best friends, lovers, marriage partner, crime partner, your pet goldfish,…
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An Interesting and Frightening Development
This is more a post about my personal thoughts on the matter as opposed to the facts of the case, just so you’re aware. As you may remember (or not) I posted somewhere… *rummage, rustle* Oh, ew… I thought I threw that out. *paper flipping* Ah, here we go. Yes, right here I posted my…
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Schnitzel
I lurk on yahoo groups and blogs sifting for useful nuggets to stash away into my very rough plan of self-publishing. Maybe I’ll delve into that plan someday. Today I’m going to prattle on about cooking, and how it may apply to writing. My family are picky eaters. There’s no other way to say it.…
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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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