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Get baked
So I’ve been following Miss Snark’s First Victim since, I think, close to her blog’s conception. She is one of those people who is made of awesome. And she’s got an awesome contest coming up: the 2013 Baker’s Dozen, which is detailed here. It is my goal to have my ms. done so that I…
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New host; site apparently not broken (anymore)…
OK, so I have a new hosting company and am (I think) successfully transferred after 48 hours-plus of kicking myself for not testing all this beforehand, and having various iterations of a 404 page come up on my site, or not at the home page but everywhere else. But let us not speak of the…
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Hortense Montgomery, Zombie Hunter, Gets Spiced [partial draft]
Because I’m lazy/working on getting my site fully moved over to my new host/working on a longer, More Serious post (which nevertheless involves a cartoon), I’m pulling a post that has been languishing in my draft folder for over six months. Maybe eventually I’ll come back to it and do the whole story and recipe…
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3 songs currently receiving heavy play in my Spotify
Yes, I’m totally phoning it in this week. Novel is once again eating my brain (and the necessity of generating a summary for a critique session I’m going to attend at the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold conference this fall, though once done and polished I’ll probably post that here). I’m also starting to…
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3 of my favorite lines from my WIP
Herewith, three of my favorite lines from my work in progress, in no particular order, and including only enough context for the lines themselves to make sense. 1. “It’ll be all right.” The knife-wielding shadows in his eyes said he knew it was a lie, but neither of us admitted it. 2. I waved expansively…
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An introvert gets an ultrasound
No, it’s not the start of a joke (though maybe it should be…). Last Friday I went to urgent care to make sure I didn’t have a blood clot in my leg. Since Tuesday, I’d been having some weird pain in my calf and right above the knee that would not abate and became pretty…
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3 things about…
… this post from The Bloggess: 1. It’s awesome. 2. Reading the comments is invaluable in remembering that you’re/we’re/I’m not alone. 3. Reading the comments is invaluable in remembering that many of your/our/my problems are petty. And for the ones that aren’t? See number 2.
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Alas, jerkbags still exist in the world
The month of June was a rough one for the Science Fiction Writers of America. The organization came under severe criticism for sexism, as the past three issues of its bulletin had included content that was, essentially, sexist. I debated about whether I should write about this myself. Run a search for “SFWA sexism” and…
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3 things I love about writing, with footnotes
Writing is work, and writing is hard, and therefore, despite those who believe that writing is this lovely thing that happens magically when fairies sneeze or angels blink, or as the result of some other event that requires no effort whatsoever (these people tend to not be writers themselves), I sometimes need to remind myself of what I like…