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Housecleaning is part of my writing process. People always tell me to leave the dishes in the sink and the dust-bunnies on the stairs, as if there’s something pathological about needing to clean first. For a while, I believed them and tried to force myself to just sit down and write when I had ten…
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I’m gonna out myself and admit that criticism scares the crap out of me. It literally stops me in my tracks sometimes. What can I say? I like to be liked. But over the years, I’ve learned that you can do two things as a writer: you can write to be liked or you can…
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I’m plotting a massive rewrite. To be completely honest, I’m feeling pretty intimidated by the size of the mess I have in front of me. But this story is one of my favorites, and it’s a really solid potential follow up to Edwin being the same teen lit type of story, so I’ve decided it…
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I was just looking over my goal list for this year, realizing I’m completely behind the curve, as usual. 1) Draft Secret Project and pitch it2) Read every day3) Read one work of fiction a month–most of what I do read lately is non-fiction–Failing…but again, I’ve read more fiction this year than the past few…
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A LOT is new actually. This winter, we got a new dog. Isn’t she a cutie? Her name is Annabelle, she is a little over a year old, and she came to us all the way from the deep south. Frankly, we did not plan to EVER get a dog, but our kitty Pandora passed…