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Weekend Plague

There’s something about working with the public. The incubation period of every disease in the known universe is the exact length of time required to wreck your next day off. Go in to work on a Monday morning, and you will most certainly be feeling feverish by Friday afternoon. On the bright side, you’ll be

IWSG: Reactions from the Readers

5MayKaren4 Commentswriting

The awesome co-hosts for the May 5 posting of the IWSG are Erika Beebe, PJ Colando, Tonja Drecker, Sadira Stone, and Cathrina Constantine! I had a beta reader suggest that my characters needed to be more dragon-y. I don’t know why, since they weren’t dragons in the first place. No. Really. They’re just random

To the Waterfall

3MayKaren2 Commentswriting

I went out to see the waterfall, last week. You’d think there’d be pictures of a waterfall here, but there aren’t. Somehow, I forgot to take any. Here. You can have this nifty picture of the Platte River as seen from the observation tower. I probably got more exercise climbing the tower than I did

And Yet Another Bag…

21AprilKaren2 Commentswriting

Sometimes, it seems like all I do is buy bags. Or at least… that I’m above my fair share for the last year or so. I have my revision bag… And I have purses. Well, we’re not talking designer bags. More… I think I can fit a notebook in here, and if I spill ink

A Short Loop on the Platte River

16AprilKaren1 Commenthealth, hiking, travelexercise, hiking, nature, outdoors, state parks

I finally have some (moderately) outdoorsy pictures for you. I got outside, got my annual park permit… and got in a few miles. Ordinarily, I might hop over the border to go to parks in the neighboring states (beautiful, wooded, hilly states), but… Pandemic. So, I got an annual park permit for my home state.

Holding Back the Tide

9AprilKarenwriting

To begin with, let me say that I have neighbors. In the great scheme of things Midwestern, they are new neighbors, which is to say that they’ve only been around for ten years or so, and I don’t have any idea who their parents or grandparents are. We are probably not related, although there are

IWSG: Risktaking in Writing

7AprilKaren6 Commentswritingamwriting, IWSG; Insecurities, risk taker, risk taking, themes, writing

Am I a risk taker? I’m never sure what the answer to that question is in real life or in writing. The short version? I’m not a stupid risk taker. In real life, that means I like safety equipment. A lot. Something’s gotta catch me if I fall, right? My usual risk taking process is

Back in the Kitchen

5AprilKarenwritingcooking ahead, frittatas, planning

The project for today is muffin tin frittatas. It’s a level or so above the frozen breakfast sandwiches I’ve been eating, and they don’t take much time. I do a week or so at a time, and there’s breakfast. In other words, I’m capable of beating eggs. Cheese, vegetables, crumbly stuff. The grocery store provides

Software Death Match: yWriter Takes a Hit

2AprilKarenwriting

It’s been a while since I talked about novel writing software. I’m back on the topic, now, because my computer shut down “for updates” last night (We could discuss that, Bill Gates.) and I wound up losing some of the short story I’d been working on in Y-Writer. (Y-writer 7, to be precise.) I stopped

I Am the Family Yo-yo.

31MarchKaren1 Commentwriting

The big excursion of the week was a trip to a nearby town to get a sandwich at a drive-thru window, and walk around in a cemetery for a while. It was a good sandwich, and it’s a nice cemetery. Historic. (The cemetery, not the sandwich.) There was no real purpose to the cemetery trip.

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Weekend Plague

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