Writing Life

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

Color-Coded for Maximum Confusion!

Actually the goal is not confusion! I like my flight manual colorful, is all. And it’s not really color-coded, just…colorful. (Pay no attention to the super-huge discs. That’s just me being a doofus. On realizing that my flight manual was close to outgrowing the 3/4-inch size my notebook came with, I decided i should just […]

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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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Saturday Morning Post

Waking up sneezy and a teeny bit congested is even less fun than it used to be. Is this allergies or is this something else? challenge 2020. However! Today in gardening news: One of my zucchini plants has a flower! I’m so excited. Roomie has been taking over the house with her sourdough starter, but

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This Week in KD News

The book-writing goes on. I went back and did scene cards (Scene: Goal, Conflict, Disaster. Sequel: Reaction, Dilemma, Decision) and realized in the doing what I already knew–the beginning was really floppy, because as I wrote it I had no idea where I was going. I have a little better idea now, and I need that foundation, so I wrote some scenes for the beginning.

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Freakin’ Allergies, and also Babble About (Re)Writing to the End

Sometimes I write so fast that I outpace my plotting brain. I’ve learned to recognize it when I hit a point where I don’t know what happens next. Or rather, I do, but I don’t know how to write it.

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So, Uhh…New Book!

I know, I know…I show up, I announce I’m back, maybe I post a few more times, and then I vanish for months. You can’t see, but I am hanging my head in shame. Honest. I’m not going to promise not to vanish again. I’ve got some plans to get myself in a better headspace

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Flame Isfree and the Feather of Fate

A Novel of the Spell-Wracked Lands Bucking thousands of years of tradition, Flame ran away from her elven heritage, her glorious destiny, and her arranged marriage. Now she’s an expert treasure-finder in the human world, one job away from buying out her indenture and setting up a tower somewhere full of pretty things and pretty

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