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I’m enjoying a little vacation from writing. Not that my mind isn’t straying to my stories — I’m just not clearing time as I usually do to make room for writing. After my friend’s wedding on July 7th I’ll be back in the swing of things. For now, check out this beautiful flower blooming in […]
It’s time to start the third round of Round of Words in Eighty Days, the writing challenge that knows you have a life. In this challenge, each writer works toward their own goals over the course of almost three months. This is my fifth round with ROW80. I joined up for the third round of […]
Alrighty whippersnapper. (That’s me talking to me.) Time to get that rear in gear. So … who never managed to do a ROW80 close-out post? Who? That’s right; me. I don’t even think I’ll add it to the linky tool, because I doubt anyone goes back to it. However, I also don’t want to start […]
I took the afternoon off of work because I have far too much life stuff to do at the moment. A very dear friend is getting married in four weeks, so the next two weekends are full of festivities to celebrate her single life, and that which lies beyond — marriage. 🙂 I think our […]
It turns out I’m quite satisfied with the way this draft is progressing. Fear is such a pesky beast. I’m happy to say I’ve been looking mine straight in the face and continuing on my chosen course anyway. So there, beasty fear. (Note: I’m talking about the fear of complete and utter failure, not being […]
If you haven’t seen Snow White and the Huntsman yet, and you’re into fantasy, put down whatever device you’re reading this on, and scoot on out right now to find a showing. I saw it over the weekend, and I’m still thinking about it. This movie is full of wonder. The portrayals of the Dark […]
Hi again, fellow writers and readers. This will be a short update, as we have a busy day full of family events. Editing is a funny game. Let’s be real. How much do I have to say? Not much. 🙂 A few weeks ago I pulled a whole section out of the novel I’m editing. […]
Part One of Queen Witch is done! It’s so hard to measure progress in revision, so I’m looking both at changes in total word count, and where I am in the manuscript. I’m at 11,200 words of cleaned up and revised manuscript. Yippee! That’s 2,900 words further along than Sunday’s count. However, my total word count […]
The first 8,300 words of Queen Witch are revised and edited. I could almost hear these pages squeak, they were so clean. I’d been worried about the start of the novel — beginnings always confound me — but I think I actually did a great job here. That’s the exciting part… Now for the hard […]
When I saw this beauty getting ready to bloom a few days ago, I knew it was special, and just for me. My favorite rose bloomed first. Here’s a picture of that bloom now. I wish I’d caught it yesterday, but I was too busy drawing a farm with my kids, and blowing more bubbles. […]