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Reading, Breathing, Sleeping. The Necessities.

02.21.2011

Yes, I write romance, and I’d never (until this past December) read a Jane Austen book. Any. At all. Yes, I was ashamed of this deficit. When I was growing up, I didn’t get new books. I had trips to the library, occasionally, which I reserved for horror and mystery. I don’t know why. Well, [...]

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Polished Toenails = The Good Life

04.06.2010

I’ve got this weird idea, maybe more of a subscribed belief: painted toenails equate to a flourishing, happy, carefree life.  I realize it’s not really rational.  How do you rationalize something so trivial as an indicator of something so crucial? You could look at Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, perhaps, and assume that all those lower [...]

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5 Things I Love About Twitter

03.21.2010

I <3 twitter so hard.  I spend significant amounts of time, every day, checking in with my “tweeps.”  (Yes, I know how dorky that sounds.) Sometimes it only takes 140 characters to recognize a person you share a passion with. All over the internet, I’ve looked for writing groups that didn’t end up taking up [...]

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True Blood

02.22.2010

So, I’m netflixing TV shows.  It’s research, honest.  I watch some good TV series, I get this mojo for good writing, it makes me want to write, etc. Anyway, I just watched the first disc of True Blood which I knew very little about, except that most people raved about how awesome it is.  And, [...]

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Organize much?

02.10.2010

But online organization doesn’t have to be complicated. There are many tools for organizing all our stuff, of course, but one of the simplest is the wiki. We’re all familiar with wikis, of course — Wikipedia being the most famous example, but many other useful wikis abound on the Internet. But one of the most [...]

Tagged as: i'd recommend, personal, writing tools

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New Year Resolutions Are Evil

01.01.2010

New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain via Happy New Year Quotes, New Years Eve Sayings. I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions.  I think it presumes one is somehow failing already.  Which, I [...]

Tagged as: personal, quotes, the care and feeding of your muse, writing past the fear

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NanoWriMO Support

11.09.2009

It amazes me how supportive nanoers are to one another.  When I tried this a few years ago, I felt so alone and couldn’t see my way through it.  But interacting on twitter, though it can be distracting, has shown me how supportive other writers and NaNo participants are.  I’ve received more than one reply [...]

Tagged as: craft, NaNoWriMo, the care and feeding of your muse, writing past the fear

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A Glance at: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

09.28.2009

I’m almost finished with this book, and I’ll probably update this post when I do, but I just wanted to jot down some observations about the book.  I’m not a reviewer, and there’s a good reason for that.  I’d have a hard time slamming a book even if it really deserved it (not that this [...]

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Sad News for ePublishing

09.11.2009

Quartet Press is no more. I had high hopes for the publishing group, after reading their blogs, their proposed plans on how to do business, and the hype.  Oh, the hype.  All I can really say now is that they came on the scene with a bang, and left with a whimper. Read what people [...]

Tagged as: a glance at, the business side

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Nix, Nix (that’s from Jailhouse Rock)

09.02.2009

I want to stick around a while and get my kicks. Yeah, that was totally unrelated. I’m nixing the schedule. I’ll still keep posting, in the same categories, maybe some new ones. I’ve got some great stuff saved up for link licker and I think I’ve almost got this long synopsis thing at least under [...]

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Wishing Well

08.29.2009

Unknown: “Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing.”

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