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January 31, 2021
January 2021 Writing Wrap-Up
The challenges and wins from January 2021, as well as what's coming up next!
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January 9, 2021
December Writing Wrap-Up
One of my goals for 2021 is to get better about documenting my past accomplishments and successes, as I am historically AWFUL about doing so. This really hit home when I was taking a look back at 2020 in order to align my publishing goals for 2021. I was in a planning workshop for authors, […]
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December 24, 2020
Beneath the Christmas Star: a Lucky Logan prequel flash fiction
A fluffy Christmas short... with angst. Lots of angst. But hey, I tried my best! :P MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
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December 9, 2020
Writing Prompt Wednesday: “Observations on an autumn afternoon”, a poem.
The leaves of a treewhose name I do not knowCling trembling stillamid other branches bare and brownAnd spot the ground beneath my feetblood red against the mudand shining rosy goldin the autumn sunDipping so low alreadyat not-quite-four in the afternoonMeanwhile an old gnarled hedgesee her name I do know squats nearbyits branches reaching farand tangled []
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November 22, 2020
Sometimes I forget things while writing a novel… and then I just roll with it.
Something I've been having a lot of fun with while sticking to the Writing Into the Dark process is the unpredictability of a novel's events...
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November 12, 2020
Protected: BATHTIME, a bonus steamy scene!
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Protected: A Night with Nora and Nettie…
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October 2, 2020
Friday Factoid: Most Outlaws Did Not Have Long Careers…
If there's one thing much of our western fiction (in all mediums) does, it's to paint the Old West outlaw in a rather romantic light. Even if the outlaw baddie in any given western tale is a truly terrible person (instead of the protagonist themselves, which sometimes happens) ... at least they are portrayed as being very successful at being a truly terrible person, thus prompting our hero to have to step in to stop them, of course. However, through my novel research, I've begun to realize that ...
September 20, 2020
The history of Deadwood in my fictional town of Blessing…
Since the pandemic hit our area in mid-March 2020, the hubby and my son and I have pretty much hardly left our house. Since we can both work 100% from home now, and our son has started virtual schooling… well, we just don’t have much reason to get out. Ever. But after nearly 6 months […]
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September 3, 2020
On writing another THE END…
How it feels to have finished my 7th novel! And what I've learned along the way in my last 7 years as an indie author...
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