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Today will be a brilliant day in which I squint at my muse a lot. # The last day of NaNoWriMo. Didn't sleep last night due to (I think) the SoBe I drank at the mall. Stupid inadvertent allergic energy drinks. # I made it yesterday! I still have the epilogue to finish, but I […]

All, I’m working on a cover for the next De Kenyon book, the first in a middle-grade series.  Please give me comments!  The genre is an adventure/spy story with lots of magic and animals, modern day.  (I may add a tagline later.) The last version, everybody had a problem with the font. Here’s the deal:

Now that I’ve finished NaNoWriMo2011, I’m going to switch gears: to editing. I find that my enjoyment of editing swings back and forth; usually what happens is that I hate it until I’m in the middle of it, and then I enjoy it until I get sick of it, and then I hate it again.

I would make a terrible demoness.  Here it is, nearly Christmas,* and I haven’t managed to tease out what the members of my family want other than in bare dribs and drabs. Is it being raised Midwestern that has made Lee and I this way?  “Oh, whatever”? And have we passed this horrible curse of

I would make a terrible demoness.  Here it is, nearly Christmas,* and I haven’t managed to tease out what the members of my family want other than in bare dribs and drabs. Is it being raised Midwestern that has made Lee and I this way?  “Oh, whatever”? And have we passed this horrible curse of

If you finished your National Novel Writing Month writing project–group hug! If you wrote 50K but you didn’t actually finish your novel–group hug! If you met your goals, whatever they were, even if they didn’t involve 50K–group hug! If you didn’t finish but wrote a lot–group hug! If you didn’t finish and didn’t get much

The end of NaNo approaches…the end of the book approaches…I wonder if these two things are related or if I'll have more to go in Dec. # Powered by Twitter Tools

New fantasy story inspired by Tom Waits.  Not specifically by Tom Waits, just by the very existance of Tom Waits.  If I made a movie and Tom Waits had a cameo in it, this would be the short story that inspired the movie that had the Tom Waits cameo in it. The press would ask,

New fantasy story inspired by Tom Waits.  Not specifically by Tom Waits, just by the very existance of Tom Waits.  If I made a movie and Tom Waits had a cameo in it, this would be the short story that inspired the movie that had the Tom Waits cameo in it. The press would ask,

If you’re on track, then you’re at the point where all you have to do is keep going: which is not to belittle the stress and effort of such action, but to point out how simple it is.  If you’re on track for your word count, you’re past the point where doubts really mean anything.