IWSG: Best Characteristics of Your Genre

The awesome co-hosts for the October 5 posting of the IWSG are Tonja Drecker, Victoria Marie Lees, Mary Aalgaard, and Sandra Cox! I’m revising a short story with an unreliable narrator… and wrestling with the POV issue. I feel like I don’t know anything about the story. I don’t even know if there’s a problem with the story. I’m probably

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Advent Calendar and Away!

This month–last month–went by in a flash. So much so, that I haven’t updated my blog lately. I got my story in for the indie authors advent calendar. If you want to send in a story, the deadline is October 15th. 1000 words or less. Bio. And something for an email bonus. I’ll be sending

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The View from The Tower

I hit the other observation deck at Mahoney State park this weekend. So, here’s the view from the top. The thing does sway a little bit in the breeze, but not so much that you’d notice, if you just keep looking straight ahead. (Okay. Not so much that I’d notice. I have a pretty solid

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And August Begins…

So, here we go. The start of a new month. I’m taking another swing at that elusive “perfect organizational system” and trying to condense everything I need to keep track of into a daily format. (Yes, the spreads are lovely… ish… or at least, trendy….ish. But the thing where my day is scattered across four

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In Which I Suspect Malfeasance

My running light went missing somewhere between sunrise and sunset, and it’s been driving me nuts ever since. There’s something about waking up and realizing just before you have to leave that the thing that keeps you from getting run over by cars isn’t there. There’s something worse about involuntarily going out without it. I’m

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Tales of A Failed Phone Fairy

It’s my sad fate to be the neighborhood’s unwilling tech-maven, and lately… I’ve been wrestling with phones. There are two basic truths to phones: 1.) It might be good to replace your phone before the power switch stops working. and 2.) Stop breaking your phone by looking at cut-rate porn. The lady’s phone number has

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I have been watching the news and working the day job today, and I really didn’t get much else done. Well, a page here and there, and some more plodding toward a revised draft of the book du jour. Why is it always the day when you have the least time that the really fun

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