Tag: random musings
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Seeking the Flames
Some nights the words scream through my dreams. I have to get up and let them out or my skull will explode with the pressure. Sometimes my fingers move like a blur on the keyboard, the friction of my pace enough to make me wonder if my hands will ignite in flames. Other days I…
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Author Appearance Survival Kit
I’ve seen this question come up from time to time on the yahoo self-publish group, so I thought I’d compile a few of the sage answers of experience with my own theatre rat background. If you’re expected to bring your own stock of print books, pack them in a plastic tote. Something will spill, the…
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A Dark Desire…
I have a confession to make. I want to be my characters. Even my most pathetic, wallpaper background character has more courage than I do. I want to live my characters’ adventures. I want to be able to throw responsibility to the wind and not have to pay the price for it. I want friends…
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Without the Flowing Madness
Some nights the words bounce around my skull, demanding I rise early from bed and let them out. Sometimes the ideas pour from my fingertips – reams of bumpf carrying tiny nuggets of fool’s gold to urge me on. They sparkle in the flow. They glimmer. They invite me to dip my hands in and…
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Pondering Front Matter (3)
Last one – I promise. I just thought folks might be interested in the verbage of what I came up with for my junk. That and I also uncovered the fact that some authors are now trying to move as much of the “front matter” as possible to the back, in order to get through…
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Mercurial Monday
We all know I don’t like NaNo. If you were paying attention to that post though, you would also remember that I didn’t say other people shouldn’t like Nano. You do you and I’ll do me and we’ll all be happy. The thing is, when I take my daughter to dance class, I wait in the…