Tag: random musings
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May 2019 IWSG
What was an early experience where you learned that language had power? Oh. Ummm…. Are we talking about written language or spoken or just language generally? I was in 4th grade when I learned that one was allowed to write without having been blessed from some authority on high. I was in middle school when…
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Too… Something?
I haven’t written since the day before the bomb cyclone in March. I was actually winding down, anyway – not because I was done with the particular book, but because I was struggling again. Then my laptop, while functional, has been giving me increasing amounts of electronic geriatric attitude, so it needed to be replaced…
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No More Battery Juice
I made a goal in August 2015 to rough out, from start to finish, Fantasy book 3, by Christmas 2015. I knew it was a bit of a quagmire, but I already had 250 pages of notes and scenes scribbled out, and I knew where I wanted the story to go and what I needed…
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A Death Rattle
Barnes and Noble has begun harassing me at least once a week with email promos to come in and buy stuff. This has been going on since January, although they’ve had my email for something like 2-3 years, now. I only received an occasional email once every few months from them before, but now it’s…
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Lost in the Middle
What I like most about writing with the muse whispering seductively in my ear is that I kinda know where things are going. I’ve got a beginning, there’s some stuff in the middle and I know how things are going to end in a rough fashion. Of course things change as I write while suffering…
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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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