Category: writing
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365 Days of Prompts: Day 2
Writing Prompt: Earl Grey: Crime Fighter Earl steps out of his car, hit with a wave of heat and humidity. He checks his watch; it’s not even 7 AM and he can feel the sweat crawling down his back. Nothing new living in the south then, it’s going to be a scorcher of a day.…
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365 Days of Prompts: Day 1
Written: March 2, 2020 Writing Prompt: Opening Line Dear Reader, I wish I could tell you that you’re going to like this story. But at some point we made a pact, didn’t we? I would write about everything that happened, no lies, and your reading it constituted your agreement for no judgement of me. Because…
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365 Writing Prompt Challenge Introduction
Recently I have come to realize that I work on organizing and plotting books, but I have slipped in my actual writing time and progress. This is also why I’ve gotten further and further behind on book reviews as even staring at a blank screen to review a book was causing blocks and anxiety. But…
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Getting Published!
It’s really weird to be making a blog entry about this, even though I have promised it on a podcast once or twice. I have a short story being published at the end of this month! It is called “The Bucket List!” That tells you nothing I am sure, so…. After a torturous last few…
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February Wrap Up, And Looking Ahead to March
I, like so many others it seems, it a really bad book slump this month! I blame Rainbow Rowell for this, as Fangirl was just too damn good. I did start a few, and I picked up a bit as the month came closer to an end and A Gathering of Shadows came out. (If you are…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Writing Soundtrack
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s pic seems to be a bit vague, a combination of book and music. Since I can read with almost anything on — I can block out noises and make it white noise (no seriously, I read on the subway with…
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Mid-Month Updates, ICYMI
I think I am having the best February ever, and now I shall knock on wood to keep from jinxing myself. Especially as I am driving tomorrow for the first time since I moved to Brooklyn. I am not reading much at all right now — Fangirl kind of ruined me for a little while. I…
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A Salinger Character Moment
Despite its thin walls and lack of air conditioner, I love my new apartment. I good portion of it is still in boxes (most of my bedroom and half my kitchen?) but I can sit in my living room and pretend that the rest of the place is unpacked. And getting rid of a car…
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NaNoWriMo Prep Update Number 2
Confession: I casted my book characters for the future movie of the book. Did I jinx myself? Probably. But I so don’t care. I absolutely love Scrivener. You can build character profiles and everything, without having to create a ton of different documents or a running word document that gets all jumbled. So below is…
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NaNoWriMo Prep: Ramblings of an Update
One of the items on my long bucket list is to finish a novel. I tried completing National Novel Writing Month a few years ago (six. six long years ago.), but I let finals prep always get in the way of finishing. I recently (by recently, I’m talking June-ish) pulled out that incomplete story and was impressed that I…
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