Writing Life

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

The True Meaning of Fractured

I wonder if the person who came up with the term fractured personality was, or knew, a writer.  An intuitive writer, which apparently is what I am.  I certainly feel fractured today! I’m giving up for the night, in the middle of chapter 16.  I’m having a *bleep* of a time keeping my characters straight […]

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Expletive Deleted

I’m going to have to hurt someone, if this keeps going on. I do everything I can to get writing time, and it just seems to blow up in my face. Why can’t anyone on this planet get along without my expert help? Okay, I’m exaggerating. A little. I did get to the end of

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Gremlins and/or Leprechauns

You can’t fool me with that gadgetry.  Computers run on gremlins, or leprechauns, and every once in a while that mischievous need of theirs comes to the surface, and you are so screwed. Lucky for me, it was only a minor event this time.  I’m hoping my personal gremlin takes most of its obnoxious moods out

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Finally, Some Work Done!

It’s technically Saturday, but since I haven’t slept, it’s still Friday by my count.  It was a good day, Friday.  I got a gel pad keyboard wrist rest, so all the work I’ve done today doesn’t have me in as much pain as usual.  I just finished Chapter 13, before I came to blog!  (The

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Frustration is the Mother of Annoyance

Another long day of getting nothing accomplished, I swear.  Every five minutes, seemed like, someone needed something, and it was something only I could provide.  Argh! For once, though, I did not let my mother-in-law guilt me into driving her all over the place.  I didn’t invite her, and I told her they wouldn’t just

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Exhaustion Always Wins

Chapter 6 was all I got edited today.  My wild lifestyle finally caught up with me.  Of course, I’d figured that would happen eventually, and planned for a nap.  But just as I was signing off this wonderful causer of insomnia, hubby woke from his nap.  No problem, he can have the computer for a while,

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Kill the Adverbs!

It’s been a long day of adverb-zapping, here in editing-ville.  I got through five chapters, I think I have thirty-three to go.  BJ says it’s best to edit for one thing at a time, so first up is adverbs.  Then I will go looking for misused words, like blaster, the doc’s old name, and veterans

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