editing never ends

Zucchini Down! Ayooga! Zucchini Down!

I have (had) no idea. One zucchini seedling just started shriveling, one of its two first leaves (that aren’t actually leaves, I know) and then the other. Now it’s gone. And then one of its littermates followed. Fine. Be that way. I’ll just plant MORE. In fact, I planted three. Research tells me the culprit […]

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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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Editing Flail

Editing Flail

It takes time to find your way into an edit–or at least it does me–and that “time” seems to be relative. Do I have a month until the story is due? It will take me two weeks to get past the flail. Do I have six months till deadline? It’ll take five months to get

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Say Hello to My Little Friend

Say Hello to My Little Friend

I’ve heard it asked many times, how does anyone get anything done after the internet? Well, I might have to ask–how did anyone ever get anything done before smartphones? Or is it just me who is so lazy? Or, well-intentioned, willing, but easily distracted? My phone reminds me to yell at my representatives in Washington

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I am not dead! Circumstantial evidence aside.

I am not dead! Circumstantial evidence aside.

  My life has absorbed me again. Every time I almost make it back… But I will be back. I will be back, and blogging, fairly soon. And when I am, there will be a new book out in the world! I’m very excited. (If only someone else would finish the editing for me, I’d

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Breaking the Tumblr Habit

Breaking the Tumblr Habit

It’s soooo haaaaard… Okay, I’m managing. It’s only when I want to avoid thinking (which, you know–is so rare! Really!) that I want to go to Tumblr. I don’t even contribute content to Tumblr. I just scroll, and reblog what I like or what I think is important, very occasionally commenting but mostly not. Kinda

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Editing Amid Issues

Editing Amid Issues

I’m still editing Hiro II. I shouldn’t say it like that, really, because a lot of the time that I’ve been trying to edit, I really haven’t been editing. So I am still intending to edit, but doing it a lot more than I was. Or something. Definitely accomplishing more. It’s hard to keep the

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