Jumping the Gun on the Summer of Fiction Writing

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As usual, this time of year, I’ve been looking forward to the Summer of Fiction Writing over at Holly’s writing classes. It’s a goal-oriented time for writers. You make goals. You break them down into manageable pieces You achieve them. It’s social, and it’s a great reset for all those goals that look so massive

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National Novel Writing Month and YOU!

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Today is the second day of Nanowrimo, which means that by midnight tonight, I should have somewhere in the neighborhood of… math, math, math… 3,334 words. That’s all of my stories for the Storytime Blog Hop next year, and a solid start on something a little more serious to submit for publication. Obviously, this post

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Smoke and Virus Patrol

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It is spring, and the farmers in Kansas are burning their fields. Air quality advisories for miles around, half way across all the neighboring states. Dry coughs all around. How do you tell an old lady she smells? It’s bad every year, and worse, now that every cough and tickle foreshadows a lingering painful death.

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The Joy of Losing NaNoWriMo

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I’ll be starting NaNoWriMo in about a month, but let’s be honest… I don’t expect to win. Fifty-thousand words in a single month is a lot, and a new project? Well, it could happen, but I’m still working on the old one, right now. My tiny little pantser mind has just the tiniest breeze of

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The Summer of Fiction Writing

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Holly Lisle is hosting a Summer of Fiction Writing Event on her writers’ forum, and even though the event doesn’t officially start for another week, it’s getting lively over there. You set your own goal, and then work toward it in the company of other writers. Holly has a ton of free information on her

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Art For The Few… and me

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Art for the Few is a hashtag I found on Twitter today. The tweeter was thinking of a painting. Of Frida Kahlo’s What the Water Gave Me, to be precise. The tweet described the heartbreak of realizing that the painting you’re thinking of is in a private collection. #ArtForTheFew The thing about visual art–paintings, sculptures,

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