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Finding an Ending

I truly don’t understand why I am having trouble with the ending for the second book. It’s as if there is an invisible bubble and anything I write is simply deflected away from it.

I want to finish it. There’s more work to be done and my brain pops ahead to it and then I think, “but I can’t do anything about that yet, you’re still on Chapter 17 of the revision, remember?” I think I have literally written at least five different endings. One was 700 pages long, and is now sitting in a ‘cut scen...

Typing Brothers

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Life for Lief

As is usually the case when I haven’t posted in ages, sometimes I feel I should emerge just to let people know I’m not playing possum and I’m really still around. Just a lot of things going on. Also, I usually talk about something that has nothing to do with writing, but this one is very dear to my heart.

Lief is a child I first met when he was three when I was in a practicum. I worked with him in kindergarten and 1st grade. He is, to try to put it succinctly, an awesome, brightly shining litt...

Are the silent “supposed” to be silent? A rant, zombies, and a book

I was just sitting here thinking about this, specifically regarding people with disabilities who are nonverbal. I think probably every Individualized Education Plan our there has a section on communication goals. There are goals for some that consist of just trying to get an established yes/no response to questions (I worked with a little boy who had a yes/no system, and it’s really hard to figure out how to phrase everything as a yes/no question. It’s a pretty good mental exercise). There ar...

New Review–A Monster Calls

I have crawled back to the planet’s surface briefly, mostly because I thoughtA Monster Calls was so amazing I needed to write something about it. And if anyone’s interested, check out Siobhan Dowd on Wiki–she was a very amazing person herself.

I’ve just had a lot going on that I won’t bore anyone with, then went on a week’s vacation, which was fantastic, to Victoria, British Columbia. I had never been to Canada before. Victoria is a beautiful city, I thought, and everyone was so nice that we s...

New Writing Term

I am working on editing the second book in the series of I don’t know how many there will beAithin books. That’s the main reason I haven’t posted anything in an incredibly long time. I get sort of obsessed–I even stopped reading anything. I know I’m doing a little better now because I’m actually reading things again.

The problem is, after the second edit, I had 100 more pages than I started with, which is sort of reverse editing, or, as I started calling it today, “additing.” I don’t know what...

Morning Mooning

This is pathetic, and indicates the levels to which I’m sinking to entertain myself.

Continuity

I have been sick. Sicker than I have been in a very long time, with chills and a temperature up to 102 (which may not sound like a lot, but since I have a hard time registering a normal temp on a thermometer, it’s something significant). I’ve been on antibiotics since Monday evening and am finally starting to feel human again (if that is indeed my classification). At least, I feel like I won’t get knocked over by a chair, so I can handle, I hope, children tomorrow. So, when not sleeping or tr...

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