Karen, Author at Reprobate Typewriter

Wind Turbines and a Drive in the Countryside

On a spur of the moment, whim thing, I went out to look at wind turbines. You really don’t get a sense of how big these things are, when you’re zipping by on the highway. They are tall. Of course, they’re tall. Each one of those blades gets shipped in as an oversized load on

Battling the Inner Eight Year Old

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It’s summer, and they are resurfacing every road within a hundred miles of me. Nothing like the smell of hot asphalt in hot humidity. To be honest, I’d be perfectly happy riding around on bare concrete. And there, I am. I’m trying to come up with a topic for this blog post, and the best

Fun With Fabrics

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I finally threaded the elastics for the first round of composite-style notebook covers I’ve been making. It’s good to hold a real live model of the thing in my hand, and think… I can fix that. I’ve gotten down to two knots. The elastics that hold the inserts in place are one knot–one relatively unobtrusive

The Things We Write For the Trunk in the Basement

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I got 750 words in before work this morning, and fell headlong into the kind of short story that I need to write, but which I would have to think long and hard about publishing. It’s probably not the kind of story that does great things for family dynamics. One more thing for my poor,

A Little Lite Outdoorsy-ness

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I managed to squeeze in a quick walk around a very small lake. (Between the searing heat and the rain, I was glad to do that.) It’s a man-made thing, about three quarters of a mile around, with fishing piers, and a boat ramp, and regularly stocked with fish. There was a family fishing off

Off to the Arts and Crafts Station

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I’m still trying to figure out exactly what the generic, non-trade name word for this style of notebook is. Insert notebooks? Composite notebooks? It turns out that Traveler’s Notebook and Midori are both trade names, and faux-dori? Well, I put way too much work into this for the result to be a faux anything. So,

Writing in Sessions

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I managed to hit a word count that I don’t mind mentioning, today. I’m at 1848, and that doesn’t include this blog post. I got some work done on a short story, and then I dug into the other thing I’m working on. I’m still in the very early stages of that. I just un-existed

IWSG: When the Writing Ends

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The awesome co-hosts for the July 7 posting of the IWSG are Pat Garcia, Victoria Marie Lees, and Louise – Fundy Blue! If you would like to join us, sign up here. July 7 question – What would make you quit writing? Wow. The last year or so has been pretty lean for me.

Happy Fourth of July

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Hope everyone’s being safe out there. Well… uhm… everyone else. Just try to make it to midnight with all your fingers and toes.

Where I was Last Year…

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Confession: I use the program that came with my phone to deal with photographs. The program likes to remind me of what I was doing a year ago, and suggest that I buy picture books to commemorate the occasion. (whatever that happened to be.) I’ve never gotten around to turning notifications off–I don’t take enough

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