Karen, Author at Reprobate Typewriter

IWSG: Writing Craft Books

The awesome co-hosts for the August 4 posting of the IWSG are PK Hrezo, Cathrina Constantine, PJ Colando, Kim Lajevardi, and Sandra Cox! And now, for something completely different… A little good news. I had a story accepted for publication in Tales to Terrify. Is everybody jumping up and down and screaming with me, yet?

The Magic of a Fresh Start

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This month I’m making two big changes to my bullet journal. The first one is that I’m moving into a composite-style (Traveler’s notebook, Midori/Fauxdori) notebook. (I made it myself. Accomplishment.) The Bujo is in one of the inserts, which won’t be with me for six months or a year. I’m starting to appreciate the magic

The Composite Notebook Continues

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The eyelet setter arrived, and I just finished one of the first composite notebooks I’ve been working on. The cover could stand to be longer… and possibly wider… but it functions. I put a whole lot of inserts in it, more because I wanted to see what it looked like than because I have plans

Wind Turbines and a Drive in the Countryside

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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

21JulyKarenwriting

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

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