Category: Writing
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I’m Going To Kill Him….
I love him. No, really. I do. Sometimes. Just not when he’s irritating me. Like today. He has a day off and I’m trying to work on something. I’m trying to work on a writing something. It’s a fight scene. This isn’t something you can just rough out and heavily edit later to make it…
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IWSG March
Whose perspective do you like to write from best, the hero (protagonist) or the villain (antagonist)? And why? This could quite possibly be a result of TV and movie consumption over 40+ years, but I tend to dabble in both, in part because of the effects I want to play with. The other…
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AIC
I was sick all last week. Like coughing so hard I was throwing up sick. Like lying on the couch and living the whole day in a partial doze sick. Like writing or checking email is impossible because I have to save what little mental energy I have for checking math homework sick. The only…
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My New “Collaborative Partner”
My writing has taken to an uptick which I enjoy. My 10 year old son Daniel has noticed that I’m writing again and has asked questions about it (“what are you stuck on? what’ s the story about?” And even though I’m sugarcoating medieval style warfare and domestic issues in the interests of pagecount, it…
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Of Books and Boogers
Fantasy book 3 is being a booger. An irritating booger. Like that booger that immediately freezes in your nose the moment you step outside in the cold temperatures and stabs your sinuses with its boogery icicle finger booger. That same booger that just as quickly thaws when you go back inside to the nice mosty-toasty…
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Sometimes Hope Springs Like An Irritating Weed
I did it again. After I’d sworn off beta readers for multiple issues, I found another person whose interest was piqued and expressed that she’d like to read my work sometime. Selena often complains that as a voracious reader, it can be difficult to find books that are both good and cheap (or free). Well,…