2021
Please be better than 2020
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It\’s almost October. Which means I need to finish the book I\’m currently working on by October 15. Why? So I have two weeks off to plan, plot and, rest (I know, it doesn\’t start with pl- but this is a blog, not a Sunday Sermon) for National Novel Writing Month. I\’m most likely going…
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A new school year has started. Without children around, I have had to come up with new and creative ideas to keep from writing. Alas, it hasn\’t worked and so I have actually been working on getting the book done and the queries ready to go out to some carefully researched agents. It\’s a hard…
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Ok, here\’s the deal. Shaun Groves has a blog. He has nearly three hundred readers, but never over. It\’s kind of like a wall he\’d like to break through. So, he\’s asking fellow bloggers to post his site, and he\’ll give a copy of his new album to who ever sends the most new visitors.…
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\”Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don\’t give up.\” – Anne Lamott Yesterday was a bit on the dark side. My hair turned out too dark. I got a…
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Tomorrow, the History channel is having Great Raid day. All the great rescues in preparation for the opening Friday of The Great Raid. I can hardly wait. I am trying to get my writing of this done tonight, so I can compare notes during the program. Unfortunately, I\’ve spent more time doing timelines, rude essays…
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My novel, all four hundred and seventy three pages, is sitting in a box on the writing table in my office. I’ve written, revised, and rewritten it for over two years now. It’s time for it to go out into the world and find a home. Maybe a nice place in New York where it…
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Just when you thought it was safe and I couldn\’t possibly find another quiz… Here it is, the grandaddy of them all… You are Schroeder! Which Peanuts Character are You? brought to you by Quizilla
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Here it is, the latest query blurb. Little girls always have dreams. Even during wars. Husband, home, and family, in the proper order. It\’s all Liz Corning ever wanted growing up in Houston, Texas with her parents and older brother. Frankie McConnell spent her life chasing after a mantle of trophies and her father\’s approval.…
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Boy howdy. I was starting to think there were no more fun personality tests in the world. Although I have been much too busy actually doing the work of writing to take them. But this one caught my eye.Thanks to Angie Hunt at A life in Pages for yet another way to put off writing.…
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I met a character today. She will be appearing in a forth coming book. Not sure which one, but I know she was a gift to to me yesterday in line at Half Price Books. She carried one of those little baskets filled to the brim with used VHS tapes. They were on the clearance…
