Writing Life

The life most real to me. As evidenced by the preponderance of posts.

Love is What It’s About

Just a wee bit more about “Do What You Love and You’ll Never Work a Day.” I mentioned this guy says that’s bad advice. I say, if you don’t want to do your favorite thing all the time because then it will be work and you won’t enjoy it as much…why do people get married? Ahem. […]

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Perils of a Perfect Partner

Perils of a Perfect Partner

Do you know that person who has it all together? In high school she had the schedule of work for every course copied into her planner, and she carried that planner everywhere. Even months ahead, she knew when she was going to start and finish each assignment, and she studied daily. If you forgot to write down

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Never Gonna Give You Up, Never Gonna Sell You Out

Never Gonna Give You Up, Never Gonna Sell You Out

Okay, so I sorta rick-rolled you there. I’m (sorta) sorry. Things are going to be changing around here, hopefully for the better. If I make a change you don’t like or that breaks something, please tell me! So why the changes? Well, for the longest time, I’ve been afraid of going too far with the actual

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Cut the Icky!

On my twitter stream this morning, someone compared writing a novel to giving birth, painful but exhilarating. Editing, according to this tweet, is the clean up after giving birth. Not fun, but necessary. Cue my completely inappropriate brain, envisioning a masked surgeon standing over a table with a marker going “no, no, that finger is

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Why “Bitch” Just Won’t Cut It

Why "Bitch" Just Won't Cut It

Editing continues to make me want to pull my hair out. Today I ran into an issue. Foul language ahoy! Or ahead, which is rather more accurate. ≈≈:=> § <=:≈≈ The book I’m editing is in Taro’s POV, and Taro swears. A lot. It’s the way he is. He enjoys it, he’s good at it,

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Missing Taro and Rafe?

Missing Taro and Rafe?

Taro and Rafe are two of my favorite characters, and a lot of my readers feel the same. So I’m happy to be working on another book featuring my troublemaking boys. Have a snippet of what was going to be Damsel in Distress, but will probably not actually have that title. Warning for language, because Taro.

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Type, or the Albatross Gets It!

Ugh, the blank page. Again. Even when I’m editing, I try to do 750words every day. I like to make sure the writing gears are greased before I set to work. But that leads to me facing the blank page at the start of every writing day. Sometimes I like the blank page. Sometimes when

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