Since I took Dean’s Productivity workshop last year, I’ve been pretty good about tracking the number of hours I spend in the chair, writing (not enough) as well as the word count per writing session (that I’m pleased with–I maintain a fairly high number of words per hour.) I haven’t been tracking everything else that […]
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The following is a chapter from Business for Breakfast, Volume 1: The Beginning Professional Writer. The ebook is available from Amazon, Kobo Books, Barnes & Noble, iBookstore, and the paper version is available from Createspace. However, if you’re like most writers (broke!) I will also be posting a chapter a week, so you’ll merely have
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YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!! My new novel comes out today! This one, is, uhm, kinda different. Here’s the blurb: A post-apocalyptic fairy tale. Bombs destroyed all the major cities of the world almost two centuries ago. The bombs opened rifts. Magic and myst flowed into the world. Electronic devices no longer work. Only simple mechanical devices. Man learned
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Tomorrow, my new novel Of Myst and Folly will be available. Today, I’m letting you know about the prequel short story that I wrote for the novel. The blurb: It sounded like a bomb going off. But it couldn’t have been a bomb. Or not just a bomb. Bombs didn’t tear rifts in the sky.
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The following is a chapter from Business for Breakfast, Volume 1: The Beginning Professional Writer. The ebook is available from Amazon, Kobo Books, Barnes & Noble, iBookstore, and the paper version is available from Createspace. However, if you’re like most writers (broke!) I will also be posting a chapter a week, so you’ll merely have
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No, I’m not actually roasting coffee beans for three days. However, some beans take longer to reach their full potential. When last we met with our intrepid explorer, she’d roasted some Columbian beans that were good. Even by the third day, though, they were still just merely good. So the next batch of that Columbian
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I have a short story in a new anthology that’s available today! The anthology is Tales From an Alien Campfire. It’s edited by Phyllis Irene Radford. The idea for the anthology was developed while I was attending Campcon — a kind of camping/writer’s retreat. Since we were out in the wilderness, we decided to do
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Yesterday marked the ninth anniversary of me bringing my darling kitty, Kiera, home from the shelter. They estimated she was a year and a half old, but didn’t know for certain, as she was kind of small. I’ve always considered the anniversary of bringing her home kind of her birthday. So she’s about 10 now.
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The following is a chapter from Business for Breakfast, Volume 1: The Beginning Professional Writer. The ebook is available from Amazon, Kobo Books, Barnes & Noble, iBookstore, and the paper version is available from Createspace. However, if you’re like most writers (broke!) I will also be posting a chapter a week, so you’ll merely have
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Yesterday, I roasted a fresh batch of coffee beans. This morning I had my first cup from those beans. One of the lovely things that I’ve discovered from roasting my own beans is that generally, they smell different when they’re whole, in the canister, from when they’re ground. Because of my cold, I couldn’t smell
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