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‘Tis the Season to Eat for No Reason
In response to the generosity of our families and friends, I’m posting my observations of Christmas food. This may be a repost and, if so, please forgive me. It’s still festive, and it makes my...
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Wonderful World of Recovery
Greetings from the wonderful world of recovery. I’ve reached a tough chapter, and so I’m taking a break for an update. I’m over halfway through Lessons 18 and 19. For those of you who unfamiliar with...
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Synopsis Magic Wand
Quick update: Where is the synopsis fairy when I need her? She must wave her wand and write this thing for me! Just when I thought I was armed and ready to query this tiny little problem popped up. I...
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Synopsis Success
Finally, my novel synopsis is complete. After struggling, revising, and obsessing for two weeks, I came up something I can live with. Writer friends helped me tremendously, and blogger friends...
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Knowing How
K – From my notes two years ago: Writing a short paragraph is like taking a family photograph. After assessing composition and deciding on exposure, the blink of the camera’s eye generates electronic...
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Mighty Mighty MOJO
M- Wow. Half way through A to Z Blog Challenge! Keep going! Words, with their mysterious origins and myriad of meanings, have always fascinated me. My bookcase is crammed with dictionaries,...
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Night Talk
N – It’s blog time. This nightly blog is becoming a habit, a good one. In fact, with this blog I’ve completed one hundred posts! So, how did I end up blogging in the first place? Several years ago I...
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Plenum Pursuit
P - Tonight Rick came up with a p-word for the blog. (Back and forth word suggestions have become quite a game for us now. In spite of his claims to the contrary, he has a great vocabulary.) His first...
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Zenith
Reaching the zenith of this challenge has been a great experience! Thanks to all who read my posts! I’ve learned so much about the wide, wide blog universe. It amazed me with its vast content, its...
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FLEXING MY WINGS in MAY
I wish there were more letters in the alphabet. A to Z Blogging Challenge keep me writing every day. It gave me a chance to flex my wings, and I want to keep the momentum. So, my gentle goals for May,...
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Writing under the Super Moon
Finally, I thought of something. My next novel? I hope so. At this point, I’ll take any idea I can get. My surly muse touched me briefly and ran like hell. In the last two days, I’ve named my two main...
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Bad Ass Writing Blunders
Creating my first novel, Learning Levitation, was a fascinating process and a hell of a lot of work. Writing Lies and Legends will be different. Sure, unknown BABs await but, honestly, I can’t wait to...
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4 Good Legs
gallows humor noun humor that treats serious, frightening, or painful subject matter in a light or satirical way The last six months I’ve learned a lot about the expression gallows humor. Honestly, I...
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Happy Kindle Accident
Welcome to the Insecure Writer’s Support Group, brain child of Alex J. Cavanaugh. Join us at this link. My Kindle, The Fabulous Time Waster, Decimator of Concentration, Piddler Away of Hours, and...
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A2Z Envy
As promised here’s a brief update on my writing progress. After more stalling, I’ve returned to my languishing first draft. My muse, I’m happy to say, is lurking in the room, sending actual ideas my...
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File of Someday
Funny how it happens, this fixation with a scene, a line, or a word. I first noticed it when I was painting Sunflowers in Cobalt. In the upper left corner of the painting were a few square inches of...
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Deep Word-Love
I’m happy to report I’m near the end of my second novel’s first draft, so I have a few thoughts to share. Very few. This draft has eaten my brain. Could this brain deadness be the fault of summer?...
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