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3 Things I love about fall
Fall foliage Kabocha squash The chance to drink hot tea while wearing fuzzy socks
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Ode to Black Truffle Salt (or, Why I tend to stick with prose rather than poetry)
*advances to microphone, taps it* Are we on? Okay. *Adjusts beret* Ode to Black Truffle Salt by Amanda Helms I love you, black truffle salt, and it’s ALL YOUR FAULT! Sprinkling you on foodstuffs I CAN NOT HALT! (two word “can not” deliberate for emphasis of meter) I love you on corn that…
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The Emotional Journey of Writing: A Line Graph
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An open letter to the fellow conference attendee who asked me if I write “real science fiction”
Note: this format is unashamedly stolen from McSweeny’s Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond. Check it out. Dear Fellow Conference Attendee Who Asked Me if I Write “Real Science Fiction,” Let me begin by saying that on the whole, I had a very good time at the Colorado Gold Conference…
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Work world aphorism: “Don’t let perfection be the enemy of good.”
I’m back home from the Colorado Gold Conference. Or rather, now that I am home, I will not have to drive out to southeast Denver for anymore workshops or speakers. Because I’m cheap and did not get a hotel room. Maybe next year. I digress.* In any case, one thing that stuck me during the…
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Can’t talk. Writing.
Or rather, can’t write here; writing elsewhere. In lieu of a real post, here is a picture of my dog.
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Pitch for my novel
In slightly under two weeks I will be attending the Colorado Gold Writing Conference, during which I’ll find out if my submission, Second Sun, won first place in the speculative fiction category of the Colorado Gold Writing Conference. Definitely nice to be a finalist and all, but I did have an “Oh, crap” moment when…