This week’s inspiration is a bit different. Okay, so most of these posts are a bit different. This one s a little bit more so. I’ve been writing full time now for a few weeks. And by writing, I mean standing (or sitting) at my keyboard for most of the day making stuff up and […]
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One of the advantages that a writer like J. D. Horn and The Line has while writing about Georgia and Savannah is that he was born in rural Tennessee. I am a mid-western girl, I wasn’t raised in rural Kentucky. There are things I can do to overcome this, however, and in general, to write
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The Popcorn Thief is now available! The blurb: Franklin loves popcorn. He used to love his mama more. Then she died, but didn’t pass on, and now haunts him like all the other ghosts. Only popcorn brings him solace. Every year, Franklin competes against Karl for the Kentucky State Fair blue ribbon prize for the
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Since I’m on sabbatical for the day job, I’ve been trying to learn how to write full time. I know that I’m a bit ahead of other writers just starting out, as I have worked at home for the day job for 13+ years. So the suddenly being home all the time hasn’t been a
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Subtitled: The art of traveling light For the New Zealand trip, I think I traveled the lightest I ever have. I was traveling in a developed country, and I wasn’t planning on camping, and those decisions helped lighten my pack–it isn’t that I’m a packing/traveling genius or something. But I still felt smug every time
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I blog about inspiration both here and over at Book View Cafe. Feel free to comment either here or there. I’ve finally finished the last (sixth) short story for my anthology workshop! WOO AND HOO! I’ve actually really enjoyed the process of being given a general idea about what the anthology theme is, then being
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I feel very accomplished this evening. I’ve finally figured out how to upload files directly to iTunes/iBooks. No, I haven’t verified that everything uploaded correctly and that the books I’ve sent there are all pretty and shit. Just let me bask in the error-free moment a while, all right? I finished going through the “make
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As some of you may or may not know, I spent the first three weeks of the year traveling through New Zealand. It was a great trip, too short, of course, but still a good holiday. I’ve done a lot of traveling. There’s a reason why my web site is subtitled, “Writer/Traveler.” I’ve decided to
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I blog about inspiration here as well as over at Book View Cafe. Feel free to comment either here or over there! For the latest story that I had to write, I fell back to one of the classics of inspiration, at least, for me. That’s David Mamet’s formula: 1. Who wants what from whom?
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This is probably a Part I of X posts, but until the next parts come, I’m not going to bother labeling them as such. I spent the first three weeks of this year in New Zealand. Now, I’m on sabbatical from the day job: I won’t go back until March 17th. This means my world