Tag: Writing
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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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IWSG April
I’m a wee bit behind on my postings. Last week was Spring Break and the monkeys were home and, and, and. Anyhoo, April 2019 IWSG prompt isn’t blowing up my skirt. Only ONE wish to suss out ONE writing thing, like a single chapter or a specific type of scene? I’ll tell you what my…
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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…
