Category: writers
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On writing: the superpower of smell
Not everything you write needs to be for other people. But if you’re writing something you want someone else to…
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Why I love Ted Lasso
Home Short Fiction Blog X A reader gave me one of my favorite reviews. He liked Swift Horses Racing because…
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How I learned to appreciate video games (or at least the people who play them)
Home Short Fiction Blog X This is an update to a post I wrote a few years ago, in which…
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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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Ashes, ashes
Home Short Fiction Blog X Maybe it’s the extrovert in me, but I love when people read my book and…
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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…
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Running: my new writing buddy
Home Short Fiction Blog X Sit as little as possible. – Friedrich Nietzsche I started running again recently, after a…
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Sneak attacked by joy
Home Short Fiction Blog X When I was growing up in Iowa, May Day was the best. You made up…
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What the Faux, Hemingway?
When a literary quote doesn’t hold true.
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…