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Writing in a Journal
I got a journal when I was 12 years old. I didn’t write regularly in it, but enough is there to bring me back to that time and attitude. One entry, March 3, 1984, on the second day of having the flu, started out with this: Today was just as bad a day, except maybe a…
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Happy New Year 2013
Sitting here with my family while they watch TV, laptop on my lap where it should be. Outside it’s really cold. So, what’s up this year? I’m secretary for Young Women. If you don’t know what that is, our church has a program for teenage women from 12 to 18 years old. It helps them…
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A House of Order, Mostly
If you like science, go check out my other blog, Molecular Me. I just put a post there today. In my last post, I said I needed to get the basement clean. Well, I did. The cold storage, the second kitchen (which was being used as “just go put that there” storage), the office, the…
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New thoughts on the business of writing
It’s kind of scary, actually. When I first started moving towards being a professional writer, I learned several things. Do short stories, get a name, then write a novel, submit to agents, get an agent, then hope the agent gets a publisher for the novel. A year ago I would never, ever have thought of self publishing.…
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Blue Moon Ranch and live alpacas
I had decided that my stargazing, herding culture would herd alpacas instead of sheep. Just to be different and because I’d read they were very intelligent and social. Sounds like a nice group for my very philosophical, regretful culture who are looking forward to the day they can redeem themselves from a genocide and get…
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Fiber arts in world building
I like to knit. It does a lot of things for me. I decided to take it up instead of doing Mahjong or Solitaire or other memory/puzzle games that I used to “defrag” my brain. That way, I’d be increasing a useful skill, and milestones would be things that I could actually use myself or…
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The Killers Concert
I’d said right after the concert was done that I would blog about it, so my oldest daughter has been waiting for this post. So I guess I must. It isn’t that I don’t want to write about it. It is just that I have had second thoughts about how much I want to say.…
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50 K Words, 20 Stories in Nov
So, the last few years I have considered myself unable to do Nanowrimo. Good reasons: Last year I actually was writing a book in November, and got 70K words done in about 2 months. Non-fiction doesn’t count, though, and I took the contract with a 2 month deadling. Novels don’t fit in there. Also, there…
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Writing goals and changes
I’ve been starting to come to a realization lately. My work at Geekatplay will simply not let up enough for me to concentrate on my writing career as much as I’d like. I’ve decided to not focus on getting a novel done this year, but instead to write short stories for a few more years.…
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Behind the scenes of writing Vue 7 From the Ground Up
My mom said something very true the other day, that I really can’t separate myself into parts: wife, mom, writer, etc. Every facet affects every other one. It’s all one me. So this “making of” topic is going to drop all the professional/public face stuff I usually show to everyone. The fact is, I’m a…