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A fictionalization of my dog’s thoughts upon my early return home from work and our subsequent walk.*
(From outside, keys jangle and tumblers in lock turn.) Hark! It is My Person, returning to me at last! Joy overwhelms my soul. The only way to express my happiness is to retrieve my raccoon and squeak it repeatedly. squeak squeak squeaka (Door opens. Laptop, purse, and other workday accoutrements are placed on the table.)…
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It’s one week until NaNoWriMo…
…do you know where your novel is? Mine is located somewhere to the left of my medulla oblonglata. (Or at least that’s what I’m telling myself.) My novel is post-apocalyptic. It will not feature ninjas. It probably will not feature pizza. Unless, perhaps, characters discuss pizza within the context of bygone days, as in Boy,…
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Cooking for Ninjas: Pizza
Every so often, my brother asks me if I’ve written anything involving ninjas. This is probably not what he meant. Hey there, Hungry Ninja. I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking you’re hungry, but pizza? Pffft. That’s not ninja food. Because, after all, the origins of the ninja path and the pizza foodstuff do…
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Look, I have a dog!
She, and the extensive walking/exercise and obedience training involved in Being a Good Dog Owner, is one of my many excuses for not writing. Other excuses include: I discovered Dollhouse is on Netflix streaming and am currently going through the episodes. I’m also going through Bones on Netflix streaming. I’m rereading The Hunger Games…
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Miscellany Monday Presents How to Not Make Pumpkin Gnocchi
…in several rambling steps. 1 Foster a deep love of winter squash, pumpkin in particular, that leads to compulsive purchase of the gourds at grocery stores and farmers market, even though you receive more than enough vegetables through your CSA and will supposedly receive winter squash from the CSA in the near future. Develop collection…
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Writerly soul searching
What with my near-continuous lack of writing, both in terms of my blog and with fiction, I’ve been doing some writerly soul searching. Mind, the soul searching has been sporadic, a jigsaw puzzle with half the pieces missing and the ones I’ve got not matching up with each other. On the surface, it feels like…
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Promotions and raises are good!
…particularly when they occur just in time for me to seriously consider getting in on the first-time homebuyer tax credit. Which means my writing is, sadly, taking a backseat for the moment to number crunching and researching of various loans and housing options. I do have a goal, though, to finish Disenchantment by the end…