I forgot to categorize it. Might mean something. Probably doesn’t.
The other day when I had no brain at all (no jokes about how often that happens, please!) but I didn’t want to waste any more of my summer in unproductivity, I addressed all those broken posts from *cough* years ago when I moved my blog onto wordpress. I’ve been blogging for eight years, since […]
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Last night, at about three in the morning, I woke up to thunder. Rain was pouring down on the house, rattling on the cooler…the scent filled my little home and it was glorious. I must have lain awake an hour listening before it finally moved on and I went back to sleep. This morning the
I am grumpy. Things are not going as I would wish, and I don’t get to just make everything work. I cannot make people be nice to my friends, I cannot forcibly change people’s minds, and I am grumpy. My twelve-year-old is also grumpy. She spent a couple nights at a friend’s, staying up way
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I am a grown woman. I have a child of my own. I know that there is nothing lurking in the night. However, I question this when a glance into my bedroom reveals glowing blue eyes staring at me. Small, but definitely glowing, and blue, not my black cat’s yellow eyes. And is that…blue light
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How did this sneak up on me? You’d think at least one of my twitter-friends or the newsletters I get would have mentioned it… Anyway. Because it did sneak up on me, I have nothing prepared. I’d love to come up with an eloquent and impassioned plea that would soften the hearts of the most
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Today’s exercise is to expand on one area of the culture you’ve created for your world. We have a bare-bones timeline, the bare-bones elements of a language, the bare-bones of an economic and political scene. Drat, running out of time! I somehow got myself some piled-up deadlines… Anyway. Frantic typing ensues. Dwarves live in the
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