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Hodgepudding
I cannot promise how, where or when these words were used, if ever. I simply find them delightful, and want to share. HODGEPUDDING A pudding of many ingredients. I wonder if this is where meatloaf started? I wonder this because a “pudding” in the medieval era is much different than a pudding in modern American.…
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September 2025 Mental Health Wednesday
The last few months have been rough for me, though I don’t know exactly why. I’ve been excessively fatigued, exceptionally spacey. I’ve gone through the usual suspects: diet, supplements, meds, menopause, recovering TBI, a basic downward spiral, even the beginnings of a cold (that irritating beginning, where you wonder if you’re getting sick, but your…
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IWSG September 2025
Now that I’ve published the first book, and I’m working on formatting the second, I’m struggling with a few things, mentally and emotionally. One of the bigger “things” I deal with, is the feeling of being a burden. That’s part of why it took me so long to start self-publishing in the first place: How…
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August 2025 Progress Report
We are formatting the ms for the first fantasy novel. It’s a little easier the second time around, but the PDF formatting is still a booger. I’ve learned from the formatting of the romance novel, to go through it for formatting marks and set it up for epub submission, then do the PDF formatting, because…
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Word Wednesday: Xenization
I cannot promise how, where or when these words were used, if ever. I simply find them delightful, and want to share. XENIZATION Traveling as a stranger. Sometimes I think traveling as a stranger would be nice
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IWSG August 2025
This month’s question: What is the most unethical practice in the publishing industry? I’ve gone off on the Author not being able to maintain their rights and getting hoodwinked on their rights and all that a few three times, so I won’t again. I shall now expound upon a different topic: but I’ve stared at…
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