Editing, the Part That Goes On and On and

I’m editing. Still. Again. That’s a lot of my life right now. Most of this manuscript was written in word-sprints when I was furloughed last spring, so it’s very much a mess. Eventually that mess caught up to me. I was unable to write the ending because I didn’t actually KNOW the rest of the […]

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MOAR GARDENING (KD Ventures Outside)

I’m gearing up, friends. It’s March. It’s raining. Right now, it’s raining! It hasn’t done that sinceโ€ฆwell, we’ve probably gotten a few drops here and there in the last three months, but I don’t think we’ve had real rain. And I’m trying to tell myself that the government sending me $1400 is not a good

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In My Backyard(ish)

Last weekend (well, it was “last weekend” when I wrote this, but anyway,) I was so lucky to go and enjoy a cabin in a state park. I wrote about it for TDP here, with lots of pictures of birds and stuff. I’m pleased to report that wildlife seems to have decided I am therefore

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It’s Been a Tired Week

It's Been a Tired Week

I was/am trying to post at least once a week. That should be do-able, I figured. What I didn’t count on was an entire week of day after day just being so tired that mostly all I thought about was how much I wanted to be in bed. This week, I fell asleep at my

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On With the Flail!

Last night I finally, for real and for true, started editing the Paranormal mess. I always flail at the beginnings of edits, no matter how hard I try to just get in there. I’ll sort my notes. I’ll search desperately for some dimly remembered mention of some vaguely important fact that I swear I wrote

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How to Fill a Bookcase

This weekend I rearranged my room. Well, I put a bookcase up, and rearranged my bookcases. Though I ran out of time and didn’t really get done. Anyway. Would you like to know how you anchor a tall bookcase? Like this. You start the Wheel of Time, book fourteen, on the bottom right, and go

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Getting My Ship Together

slinks back in, pretending she never left So, that was a nice-ish weekend! I gathered the family for a meeting on Saturday, and then pulled a “Surprise! Chores!” on them, so some stuff actually got done. it’s amazing what can happen when four people actually work, instead of three of them planning to get to

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