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Tag: random musings

  • Self-Sabotage?

    This is what life is going to be like when the kids are in school, so why don’t I just start getting into the groove now? I ask myself that. A lot. Especially now. The kids are at day-camp, which is a lot like school hours for this particular program. I’ve got an idea for…

  • The Point of Publishing…

    I’m not there yet. I’m a slow writer. I’ve learned through observation that the masses do not want to wait 2 years in between books that are all a part of the same series (well, not anymore – 30 years ago, there wasn’t much of a choice, but now…). If you make them wait, you…

  • IWSG April

    When your writing life is a bit cloudy or filled with rain, what do you do to dig down and keep on writing? Hey, now – No one said these questions were going to get personal. I think it depends on HOW is my writing life cloudy – Are we talking about “I have no…

  • IWSG March

    How do you celebrate when you achieve a writing goal/ finish a story? Generally, I don’t. I’m too exhausted, filled with so much euphoria I feel like I’m floating and there are about 80 other things that are time-sensitive that Mommy has to do before bed. Well. That was a short answer. I, uh, guess…

  • IWSG February

    What do you love about the genre you write in most often? Oooo…. I’m a fantasy girl. Always have been. Magic is awesome. Dragons are cool. Castles and swords and spells, oh my! World building from scratch is probably the easiest thing (for me). The problem stems from my obsessive need for detail. If I…

  • 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…