WIP Clip Wednesdays: Why’d She Have To Walk Onto Mine?

So even though I won’t be doing any Nano writing until Thursday, and there’s still one more writingless evening to go, I cannot get this lyric out of my head!
“This is the last, worthless evening, that you’ll have to spend…”
Well, rather than save that line to title some lame pre-Nano post tomorrow, it seems appropriate enough [...]

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Series Update

Book 2 just keeps coming at me. 
I came up with a supporting character for this book who I figured would probably get a bigger part later on. 
While I was out grocery shopping the other day, because driving is often good for my head, I had an idea for a hero.  Just a sense of a [...]

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WIP Clip Wednesdays: Unforgiven

This is a first glimpse at my actual WIP.  I havent’s started writing yet, but this is a post my heroine, Colby, wrote for her blog.
[Mine mine.  Common decency.  Don't steal, don't copy, links only, yadda yadda yadda...]
Marissa said I should give this thing a try. Marissa’s my roommate, and she’s also a doctor. What [...]

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Friday Snippet #2: Alex in the Cafe

Welcome back.  Snippets are hard, aren’t they?  You’ve got a bunch of stuff to read today, so I sure don’t want to give you 1000 words to read.  But then, it’s hard to find something under 500 that says anything.  Last week we met Matt in his first scene in which he was communing with the spirit of his [...]

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Friday Snippet #1: Matt in the Meadow

Hey.  The other day a friend of long-standing emailed me and asked me how my book was going.  She said: I’ve glanced over your writing journal a few times, but it seems to be more about writing than you actually writing. 
Guilty.
So I’ve been wanting to do the Friday Snippets for a while, but I’ve been [...]

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Write What You Can Sorta Relate To

Cliches.  Sometimes as a cliche matures, it kinda takes on a life of its own.  Not too long ago I read:
They’re often tired similes and metaphors that no longer inspire comparative thought (“a drop in the bucket”). 
Thing about it is, when a phrase is carelessly tossed around enough, people stop talking about what it means.  And they [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #3: 13 Kick-Ass Fictional Females

Thirteen Kick-ass Fictional Females
(an incomplete and imperfect list in no particular order)
1. Eve Dallas (JD Robb’s –in Death books)
2. Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series)
3. Wonder Woman (TV series)
4. La Femme Nikita (TV series)
5. Queen Aeron (Kennealy-Morrison’s Keltia books)
6. the Anita Blake who was (early books in the LK Hamilton series)
7. Max (Dark [...]

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Interesting Bloggy Stuff

I’ve been reading a bunch of interesting things lately, and was thinking: hmmm, maybe I’ll post them.  Then I was thinking, damn, wish I’d been saving them all along. 
This led me off on a tangent about how Lynn Viehl has to be the most organized person on the planet.  She often posts lists of interesting and helpful [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #2: 13 Stories I Want to Share With My Daughter

I think I’ve mentioned around here somewhere that I have trouble making myself finish books outside of a particular genre. And yet, when I make myself stick with them, there are so many stories I’ve loved outside of my reading comfort zone. I have it in my head that when my daughter starts sitting still [...]

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The Seventy Days Goodie Box

You may remember that a few weeks ago I won the 70 Days drawing for a goodie box from Jo Leigh.  It came yesterday, but I’m just now getting a chance to get pictures uploaded and show it off.
It was a box packed with stuff- books, bath stuff, tea stuff, journal stuff.
There was a mug with a [...]

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