Category: persisting at writing
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How NOT to do an Artist’s Date
The Artist Date need not be overtly “artistic”– think mischief more than mastery. Artist Dates fire up the imagination. They…
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The Cracked Rib Christmas
2023 is the year I leveled up for ten months.Then I leveled way down. I wrote three books and a…
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New year—new news!
New years is not my favorite holiday. To me it seems arbitrary to have a big raging party for the…
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The joy of filling your head with stories
I checked out books in my school library and devoured them through the week like cans of Pringles.
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Getting through your *%&;$! first draft
Home Short Fiction Blog X Two weeks ago, I finished the rough draft of my second book, Across the Red…
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Bite your lip. Take the trip.
Home Short Fiction Blog X My first mystery novel, Swift Horses Racing, is now out. Putting yourself out there is…
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Goodbye, year that shall not be named
Home Short Fiction Blog X This year’s been crappy. Though it feels good to celebrate the end of a year…
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How I got back to writing during quarantine
Home Short Fiction Blog X Today is day 109. In the first few weeks of quarantine, I was one of…
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How this pantser became a plotter
Home Short Fiction Blog X I’ve always been a seat-of-the-pants writer. Someone who enjoys discovering the book as I write…
Latest Posts
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Anniversaries on the edge
My husband and I have an unusual tradition for celebrating…
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How NOT to do an Artist’s Date
The Artist Date need not be overtly “artistic”– think mischief…
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The Cracked Rib Christmas
2023 is the year I leveled up for ten months.Then…
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The Laughing Loaf Bacon Bread recipe
Bacon bread is by far the most popular bread item…
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Crazy love
My dad, who passed away last fall, was often a…
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A house named hope
Four years ago today, on April 22, 2019, I sat…
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New year—new news!
New years is not my favorite holiday. To me it…
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Back home and making peace with my TBR Pile
Meanwhile, the wafts from his old home pleaded, whispered, conjured,…
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Substitute
I bake. I’ve loved doing it as long as I…