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May 27, 2015
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samhawke: Here’s some more tips on hat making, following on my tutorial on making a hat block and shaping a felt hat! You can enlarge your hat block a little by taping strips of foam sheets to it. Foam is …
May 26, 2015
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Writing Advice: by Chuck Palahniuk In six seconds, you’ll hate me. But in six months, you’ll be a better writer. From this point forward—at least for the next half year—you may not use “thought” verbs. These include: Thinks, Knows, Understands, …
May 25, 2015
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fsgbooks: Today only: the following Flannery O’Connor eBooks will be $2.99 wherever eBooks are sold! Wise BloodComplete StoriesEverything That Rises Must ConvergeThe Violent Bear It Away Respost for really amazing covers, though she truly did write some brilliant stories…
April 25, 2015
Finished something finally!
I finally finished the first draft of the new book. I am tempted to email my publisher to find out if slightly over 100,000 words is OK for a book…I think it is…but it might change the price point, so I go back and forth. I want to write an amazing, non-bloated, perfect book that […]
March 31, 2015
The Key to All Things
So, according to the writing software I use the most, I have 84,678 words on my newest work in progress. I think I will call it “The Key to All Things” though really, I should google it and see if that’s been used or not. I am not sure what the key I am referring […]
February 27, 2015
Art Chain
In my SCA circles, we’ve been doing an Art Chain Challenge. I was tagged, and I put up this photo that I took, at Crater Lake. Click to see it larger. I will try and post the other things here, too…you have to do it five days in a row. Right now I am already […]
February 25, 2015
What a little sleep will do…
I’d been trudging of late. I am so stuck on The Chocolatier’s Ghost – and I think some of it is mental, that weird fear that it’s not going to be quite as good. The second book never is, the Obsequious They like to tell you. So, last week, there was enough snow on the […]
December 2, 2014
The most emotional time of the year…
I offer this a little shyly, because – I don’t know, I worry that it may come across as lame promo junk, but…would you like a holiday card from me? The idea is that old fashioned writing and cards are fading, and I find that I miss the days when I had a ton of […]
October 1, 2014
The end of the golden months, here come the months of silver and fog.
I have been working on The Chocolatier’s Ghost. I am having a hard time settling down to actually write…struggling with being tired, with trying to find time for fencing and helping the practice I run…it is hard to balance everything. I also have troubles with…I read reviews, and see what people like and I am […]
