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  • The (Early) IWSG First Post of 2018 and Obligatory New Year’s Post

    Lose Weight! Get in Shape! Get out of Debt! Travel! Burn My Ex’s House Down! Write! Leran to Splel! Get My Math On! Publish! Ahhhh, the New Year. Full of possibility and hope. I haven’t really thought about it that way for a while. My time sense in the last few years has become narrowed…

  • IWSG December

    As you look back on 2017, with all its successes/failures, if you could backtrack, what would you do differently? Oy. Well, I didn’t write beans. There was either no time, no energy, or no time and no energy. I’ve been over the primary reason before – the need to take care of the kids, lacking…

  • IWSG October

    Have you ever slipped any of your personal information into your characters, either by accident or on purpose? What? You mean like hair color? Previous work experience? Conversations? Isn’t that what research is? Here’s a counter-question: How do you write a story with believable characters if you DON’T? An example: The character is described as…

  • 2017 School Year Resolution

    *This s a long and perhaps self-pitying post. If you choose to skip it, I wouldn’t blame you.* Starting at around spring break, this summer has been 4 Iron Man competitions and an Olympic Pentathlon crammed into the course of a full marathon, run at a sprint while juggling live squid. Occasionally a clown chases…

  • September IWSG

    Have you ever surprised yourself with your writing? For example, by trying a new genre you didn’t think you’d be comfortable in?? ****This is quite rambly and doesn’t really have a conclusive point, so if you skip it, I’ll understand.**** I’m a bit of a slacker when it comes to writing. I’ve written about it…

  • IWSG August – Pet Peeves

    What are my pet peeves when reading/writing/editing? I may have mentioned my obsession with details in the past. Obsession almost to the point of freezing up. Obsession to the point of diving down rabbit holes filled with minutia. Posts written about this obsession to the point where you, my lovely readers, shriek with madness “WE…