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Empty Tubes and Tests for Days
Man, I tell you. Coming back from Santa Barbara was a great, big, freezing cold splash of reality. Wes had to leave on a series of business trips, which is normally the cue for both my kids to get all...
View ArticleThe Definition of a Successful Author
I was chatting with a fellow author this afternoon and she told me something that was pretty cool. According to her brother in law, who’s a literary fiction author, the incredible sense of camaraderie...
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Pale and Prolific
I just realized that I only blogged twice in August. Apparently that’s who I am, now. I’m just that lady who posts to her blog a few times a year. You know, back in my heyday I posted four times a...
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An Honest View of Recovery
Don’t ask me why. I feel like I’m two people at the moment. One of these people is tired of sitting on the couch and ready to jump back into the fray. School drop-offs, grocery shopping, errands...
View ArticleSelf-Improvement via Coercion
I’ve never been a person for whom moderation came naturally. Why stop at one thousand words a day when three thousand words a day will help me finish this novel three times as fast? If I cut out sugar,...
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Tranquility Now
This looks tranquil, yes? A couple years ago, I came up with a story idea I really liked. It was a marked departure from anything I’d ever written and, I felt, would be a fun challenge to write. Bai...
View ArticleTraditional New Year Post – 2018 Version
It’s been my tradition for many years to sum up the old year with a blog post and share my hopes for the new year. I’ve never been a resolutions person, but I love me some goals. It’s always a lot of...
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Very little lasts these days. Media is created to be binged and then forgotten, and I’ve often struggled with this. When the marketplace (and books are certainly no exception) is hurtling along at...
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Something From Nothing
I haven’t worked on anything book related in over two months. Other than the long break I took in 2016, this is the longest I’ve gone without writing something for fun since I started. The plan for...
View ArticleSpinning Plates
The title of this post is an accurate description of how my life feels at the moment, as well as the title of one of my favorite Radiohead songs. Wins all around! So being a working mom is a new...
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