Category: Writer
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Dissapointment – an IWSG post
I’m going to try something a little different for IWSG today: Motivation! (Ah! Don’t you close this page. Yes, you. I saw you twitch your finger to go on to a different post. Stop twitching until the post is finished, please. Then you can gripe about how I wasted 10 minutes of your life.) Someone…
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Why “Said” Isn’t Quite Dead
“Said is Dead!” a Pinterest post screams at me. Another one. And Another. And again. Oooo! This one did it with an infographic, so it must be true. I remember in a writer’s conference (the only one I’ve ever been able to get to) back in 2008 when several writers and even editors rolled their…
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Building Momentum
I’m slowly tip-toeing back into the writing. I’ll be honest, the constantly looking for excuses to avoid it is irritating, at best. Possibly because it seems so effortless for some of the bigger names (*cough*Marie Force*cough, cough*). Possibly because when a muse does show up, it is effortless. At least, the first draft is effortless…
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First Day Of School…
Yup. The kidlets are out for a whole 5 and 1/2 hours. Yup. I’ve got plans, of course. There’s all these manuscripts bugging me. Things that I WANT to get done. So why is it I’m trying to find something else to do? Daniel has declared he wants to be Jack Skellington for Halloween, which…
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School Year Resolutions – An IWSG Post
If you have children and you interact with them a great deal during the summer (Please don’t ask me how many times I’ve seen The Nightmare Before Christmas in the last 3 months. Please don’t. I’ll cry.), then I know you are pantingly anxious for school to start. Like you’ve created your own countdown calendar…
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Someday
I wrote this up after viewing this picture on Markovich Photo Art, shot by Alex Markovich. (Yes, I know I just put up a CYA post about pictures. I also CYA’ed myself with a screen capture regarding permissions on his blog – so there.) *** We bought a boat and took it out the…
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