For a while, now, since late summer of 2023, I’ve been planning on traveling with Blaze to do the Hadrian’s Wall walk. It mostly follows the old Roman wall built across the narrowest portion of England. I’ve bought books for it. I determined that we wanted to do it on our own, and not via […]
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I’ve been on the carnivore diet for about six months now. I continue to feel amazing, with lots of brain and energy. However, just having meat all the time, every day, can get a little monotonous. I’ve really had to up my seasoning, rubs, and cooking game. So I thought I’d talk a bit about
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I went on the carnivore diet about six months ago. About two months in, I suddenly had brain again, was able to write as I had been in the before times. My daily word count has gone back to 3000 words a day, instead of 1500 a day. It’s really obvious in the current book
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Honestly, I’m not that great at dealing with distractions in my life. When I have a writing habit going, you would think it would be easier. Particularly since I’m loving the book I’m currently writing. (Have I mentioned how much fun this cultivator book is? I’m constantly giggling while coming up with new silliness. There
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Earlier this week, Blaze and I went out to breakfast and started talking writing and publishing. I know, y’all are so surprised at that. In addition to talking over some of the things that we are planning on doing next year, we got onto the subject of craft. Blaze mentors a younger writer who’s just
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I’ve been on a carnivore diet for about six months now. Still going strong. Figured I’d report in on what’s happening with it. First of all, I’m not what I would call 100% carnivore. I figure on any given day I consume between 90-95% of my calories from meat and meat by-products, like eggs and
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Fall is definitely in the air around here. It’s been beautiful. The days are nice and warm, sunny and beautiful, while the nights are crisp and chilly. Leaves are starting to change, brilliant reds and golds peeping out amongst the green. We’ve just harvested all the fruit from the summer. The Honeycrisp produced a half
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I have written a lot of books in my time. I’m currently writing book number sixty-five. For the last few books, I’ve been focusing on finding the rhythm for a book, as a tool to help me write better and faster. What do I mean by rhythm? It’s an overall sense of how the story
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The mystery magazine that I edit, Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem (MCM) is stepping into new territories, and will soon have subscriptions available on the MCM site. In addition, readers can now purchase individual issues of MCM from the site. I’m doing all of this work to get ready for Bouchercon, a mystery convention, that takes
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I do a lot of things to help me stay and feel young. For example, all the walking I’m doing in preparation for our walk along Hadrian’s Wall, come September 2024. However, I’ll be sixty-two this December. While I might want to deny that I’m getting older, the fact is, I am. And I can
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