I’ve been really sick the last week. This morning, I woke up and finally felt better. Not well, but more like I’ve been running on empty for the last week, with no energy at all, and this morning, the batteries were half full. Note: Not all the way full. Merely half. So today, and probably […]
I’ve been sick this week. Really sick. This is probably the sickest I’ve been since 2009, when I have pneumonia. Wednesday was the worst. I had a high fever, I know I got confused, and I lost process. I forgot to brush my teeth that night. Now, that may not sound like much to some,
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People always ask writers, “Where do you get your ideas?” Honestly, for me, most of the time the answer is, “No frigging clue.” For example, my latest novel, “The Guardian Hound.” I was toward the very end of writing “The Raven and the Dancing Tiger” and I wrote two sentences, just two, and then I
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I finished my edits for “The Guardian Hound” this afternoon, and sent it off to first readers. YAY. I am planning on writing a couple of short stories in the next couple of weeks. First, I thought I’d try another Rabbit story. I sold the first Rabbit story to Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, so I
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I finished typing up the first draft of “The Guardian Hound” Monday, I believe. I’ve moved on to doing a final fix and heavy polish. I must power through three chapters every day in order to be finished by the 31st. That means between 3-6 hours every night of concentrated, hard work. Ugh. But I’m
I was able to write The End tonight, finishing up the hand written draft of “The Guardian Hound.” YAY! ::does happy dance:: Tomorrow night I have to type up what I wrote, about 3500 words or so. Then I have the rest of the week, until Monday, to make the novel “not broke” as it
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Typed up the antepenultimate chapter this afternoon. Was so excited about being so close to the end I also ended up writing the penultimate chapter out by hand, about 2500 words, in a single sitting with barely moving because it was so close. Tomorrow I’ll type up what I wrote today, and maybe, just maybe,
Of the novel, that is. I spent this evening brainstorming. I’ve been running into issues, and the most recent chapter has been almost impossible to write for a bunch of reasons. I have finally figured out what the next chapter has to be, and the point of view it must be from. Not only that,
From Dean, Kris, and WGM, comes the table of contents for the anthology, “Unnatural Worlds”, which I am in, that comes out in April! Fiction River: Unnatural Worlds Life Between Dreams…Devon Monk Finally Family…Ray Vukcevich The Grasshopper and My Aunts…Esther M. Friesner True Calling…Irette Y. Patterson A Taste of Joie De Vivre…Kellen Knowlan Here, Kitty
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Seven years ago today, I brought home the cutest cat. She was a rescue kitty. Her owners had moved out of their apartment and left her behind. I assume she was abused: She’s still afraid of my feet, and she has some funny attitudes toward her litter box and food. Kiera is really only my
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