I'm apparently the worst blogger on the planet. Or at least, a bad one. At least this week I (unfortunately) have an excuse: the flu.


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A couple weeks ago I was driving to work thinking about writing and how I'll never be perfect at it since no one is, but I wanted to be able to lay down words more accurately. Despite how much I love diving in and writing a story, there had to be a better way than to flail my way through the drafts, a way that didn't require the rigid outlining ( Read more... )

I realize I haven't done a lot of blogging lately. Er, in like, a month, I guess. Sorry about that. I promise an entry soon on process soon, because I've started doing something new-ish that I'm finding quite useful. However, today is not about that.


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In case y'all haven't been able to tell, I've been kinda blocked lately. No, not just lately. I've been blocked for months. Every once in while I get a good day of pushing the words out, but I haven't gotten lost in writing since February.


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OK, I'm a bad blogger lately, and I swear I will post about why soon (unfortunately it's not something all that interesting or fun), but today I'm getting the word out about a workshop in November that I'm hosting called "Characters are People, Too! Using the Enneagram as a Writer."

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Sorry for the long blog-silence. You might recall that I was having a bit of a staycation when my bestie b & her husband were visiting. That was great, but the day after they went back to Texas my grandfather passed away, so last week was all up to MD & PA for family & funeral, and then, well, I was exhausted. And this weekend is family stuff as ( Read more... )

Things might be quiet around here this week as the bestie (known around the blog as "b") and her husband are coming to visit. So if I'm quiet for a while, I'm probably hanging out on the couch talking Harry Potter & other Boys in Books.


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Working on TTOB is going Epically Slow. I thought maybe it was that I was tired of my characters, that my wrists hurt, that my mind was too full of critique, something. Anything. Some reason I could point to and say "that's why I'm not getting anything done ( Read more... )

OK, I didn't really forget Friday Five but I'm visiting family this weekend & every time I thought about posting, I was out. So here's a Saturday Six: Characters from TTOB ( Read more... )