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I am Writing

I am writing a LOT, for me, going for 4000 words again today, I did it yesterday! Problem is I keep getting distracted by things like the dog, and baking, and… Why, yes, I am trying to write a difficult scene, why do you ask? I also got distracted by this blog, which you have […]

Prepping for Publication

I am setting Sugar Skull up to publish later this month. I have a cover roughed out, courtesy of the writing workshop I attended at the end of September, and I think I have the story all ready, after the kindness of Spike Souders to gently but firmly tell me where the story was going […]

Beautiful America: Merry Christmas!

Christmas is coming fast, and there is snow on the ground, but the house is dry and warm, so I am happy. Doesn’t take much to make me happy. More photos of kids, baking, charlie-brown trees, and possibly cats, this week. Growing up we never had trees at our house, so I had to go […]

A Lovely Review

And not one I wrote, but rather written on Vulcan’s Kittens by Margot St. Aubin, who gave a fascinating perspective to my work that I hadn’t even fully acknowledged while writing it. I’m not Catholic, but my background is deeply religious, and I’m certain that C.S. Lewis’s Narnia lent a lot to my writing, especially […]

Stress-No-More

Writers! Are you blue, depressed, down in the mouth? Are you feeling like you have just written the worst compilation of words ever known in the universe? Well, worry no more! Now, you can take one look at this tome, and know that in comparison your treatise is a shining example of literary merit! Behold…

Interior Formatting for Print

Mirror-Posted at Amazing Stories today.   A week late, my apologies, but a little something we all love to hate called Finals Week happened, and I slipped right past. So here is the tips and tricks how-to for putting a book out through CreateSpace. Honestly, if you follow the directions you won’t have too much […]

Mixed Company

Good morning… it’s my day to post over at Mad Genius Club, and you will find my thoughts on old fashioned or misused idioms at Not For Mixed Company . I’m working this afternoon, iwth a weather eye on the storm that is supposed to come in. I’m actually half-hoping we do get snowed in, I […]

Impatience

I was thinking today about this, wanting what I want, when I want it. Right now, I want to have the book I’m reading read, so I could write you, my beloved readers, a review of it. It’s enjoyable, if off my beaten path of genre, but it’s not fair to review a partially read […]

Finished work

I wound up painting two Hello Kitty Sugar Skulls for the presentation today. I wrote a short story a while back, about a young chicana girl who is confronted with what it will take to keep her job in a terrible economy, and I’m using it as my class presentation for Latin Literature in the […]

Work In Progress

For today’s presentation, she wanted something colorful and relevant to the project. Hello Kitty Sugar Skull, here you go…