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Eyes Closed

Still typing with my eyes closed and slower than snot (sorry for the visual) so I thought I would just post a snip.ย  Or three. Cut from Eve’s book after Eve and Ben rescue Hanna: โ€œYouโ€™re frightening her more, Captain. Let meโ€”โ€œ โ€œNo time to coddle her, Doc. Wouldnโ€™t be a favor anyway. Look around.โ€ […]

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Actual Writing

Five-minute sprint challenge.ย  I don’t know who the characters are.ย  I don’t care.ย  *****ย  Her head hurt. So what else was new? It seemed like forever since it didn’t hurt. Yeah, so this was different. What had started as a throb behind her eye, had moved to a stab behind her ear. That was odd.

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The Better Part of Valor

The Better Part of ValorTanya HuffDate: 2002-03-01 ย  โ€” ย  Book product page Rating: It ain’t called escapist for nothing. Not sure how this will show up, but here’s how I spent my day.ย  (look for the picture) After yesterday, I found myself completely unable to cope with the fact Bly’s leaving tomorrow.ย  So I

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Stupid Plot Tricks

Quoting from this site: A plot doesn’t have to be new. It just has to be new to the reader. In fact, it doesn’t even have to be new to the reader. It just has to get past him. (It helps if the story’s moving fast and there’s lots of other interesting stuff going on.)

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Damn I'm Good

So I’m re-reading Donte as I update my file.ย  Did I explain this?ย  Last fall I polished him up, printed him out and sent him off–but didn’t back it up.ย  Hard drive go boom, I still have the original, but not the changes.ย  Fortunately when poor Donte got rejected (sigh) Warner Books sent the MS

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Not My Fault!

I’m sorry, but anyone who can look at this (it’s gone, but the pic was of a joystick with a knob on top and two round protrusions at the base…) and not think at least one dirty thought… Yeah, okay, I’m not sorry. (See the fanfic page for “Joystick.” )

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