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Synchronicity
What does it mean when you discover you are wearing (entirely unintentionally) a pirate shirt, on Talk Like a Pirate Day? Perhaps merely that you happen to have a lot of pirate shirts…
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The land of sun and excellent food
All those people who say it rains all the time in England and that the food is terrible are liars. Liars I say!
See?
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Pixelation
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Randomosity
Because I’m still recovering from finishing my revision (whew!), I offer up a random assortment of things:
1) If you have any interest in writing/publishing, check out this amazing clickable roadmap from the YA Highway. It links to a plethora of fabulous articles on different craft and business topics.
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Catching Up
So, I’ve been revising. If this book sells some day, I will write a big post on this revision, because it’s been a doozy. But right now all my energy is going into the revision, and I’ve none left to spare for talking about it.
Instead, I offer five things:
1) If you are looking for book with fabulous worldbuilding, intrigue, philosophy, engaging ( Read more... ) -
The State of Things
Right now I feel like my life isn’t quite big enough to fit everything I’m working on. Aside from my day-job and life maintenance, I’m drafting one project, gearing up to revise another, sewing costumes for a LARP, learning to knit, getting back into fiddling, and reading a bunch of really wonderful books. But it’s a good feeling! Sometimes I ( Read more... ) -
Recommendations
I saw crocuses this weekend! There’s one patch in a neighboring city that always blooms weeks ahead of anything else. I suppose it’s because they’re right up against the side of a building that must have some sort of powerful heating system in the basement right underneath, but I prefer to imagine that it’s the location of a secret portal to some ( Read more... ) -
Perseverance
Saturday was a turning point day in the new project. It was the first time I came to the end of my writing session and didn’t want to stop. As I mentioned previously, I struggle a lot with beginnings. I tell myself, just get that first 10K written and things will feel better. I even resort to bribing myself with chai and pretty butterfly stickers. ( Read more... ) -
Ten Steps to Reading More
I was chatting with some friends about reading, right around the new year when resolutions were in the air. “Read more” or “Read X books” seem to be goals for a bunch of folks, and it reminded me of the Dark Times.
As in, the years when I was not a Reader.
I started off as a Reader. My wonderful mom read me Tolkien on cross-country car trips, I got ( Read more... )
