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Eating Paste
Okay… maybe not eating it. So I finished my revision… now what? As a way to deal with the dismal No Man’s Land that lurks between revisions and new projects, I’ve been getting crafty. This past...
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Appendicitis?
Recently, I’ve been doing some story soul searching. And I’ve learned an important revision lesson… something simple that every doctor knows well: The symptom of the problem is often different from...
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Better, stronger, faster.
This past summer, my beloved puppy dog passed away, leaving a corgi-shaped hole in my life. My husband and I’d had her for almost as long as we’d been a ‘we.’ Together, we’d moved across the country 3...
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Missing Piece
My family has a tradition of putting together puzzles during the holidays. The wobbly card table comes up from the basement. The furniture’s shuffled around. And in the quiet times between visiting...
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Humming Along
What does revision sound like? For some people it might be the clickity-clack of typing. For others it’s the shush of a highlighter against manuscript pages. But for me it sounds like Battlestar...
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Kevlar
In the TV show Castle, the amazing Nathan Fillion plays a mystery writer, Rick Castle, who works with the police to solve crimes. Believable? No. Amusing? Yes. Anyway, Rick Castle occasionally wears a...
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Meep Meeeeep!
Last week, we got a new puppy! Huzzah! Four-month-old Kitsu is adorable and fox-like and endlessly entertaining. But as I’ve watched her stalking dust bunnies, pouncing on shadows, and chasing her...
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Outside of Perfect
I’ve spent the last month and a half revising my novel and I’m completely and totally in a revision daze. My head is thoroughly stuck inside my own strange fictional world. And I’ve been working hard...
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Covers and Christmas Decorations
I’ve been thinking a lot about decorations recently. It might have something to do with the fact that stores started decorating for Christmas way back around Halloween. Or maybe it’s cause I’ve been...
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Learning to Play
“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.” -Miles Davis Last week, I went to Laini Taylor’s book signing at Mysterious Galaxy. She’s one of those rare writers that is...
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