writing space

Today I have a post up at Adventures in Writing about having a room of one’s own to write in.

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don’t let this happen to you

Live and learn, they say.
A couple of days ago I was organizing the files on my computer, deleting duplicates and anything else I thought was just taking up space. Yeah, well. A folder called Recent Changes (or something like that) was full of duplicates of files that I’d recently changed. All the files that are important to me are documents and [...]

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story published and a brief update

Some exciting news! My short story “Beanstalk” has been published in OG’s Speculative Fiction. This is my first time appearing in that magazine. You can read the current issue here.
Now, I know I haven’t posted here in a while. So, here’s what’s happened regarding my writing since my last post: I received a rejection from a professional [...]

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some of the best ideas come to me when…

I’m driving.
I don’t mean story ideas, really. I mean actual phrases, entire sentences, scraps of dialogue. Maybe it’s the boredom of the road, and being alone during my commute.
Anyway, I have no way of recording these things since I’m, umm, you know, driving. I’ve heard of at least one writer who makes audio recordings of her voice [...]

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Introducing….

Adventures in Writing
A new multi-author blog dealing with various aspects of writing, which I feel honored to have been invited to take part in.
Douglas L. Perry has his first post up there now, and you can expect to see introductory posts from each of the blog’s authors over the coming week. Discussions on the writing life will [...]

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winter blues

Yep, I have them - compounded today with the Sunday blues! I’m in survival mode now: first survive January, then survive February, then survive March, and so it goes for every me, every year.
Anyway, I thought I should post an update on my writing, even if it’s just a record for my future self to read on [...]

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why I don’t/won’t/can’t do NaNoWriMo (a personal rant)

Somewhere around here, I have a copy of the crazy-optimistic No Plot, No Problem, and I thumb through it with lots of envy. Yes, I do know this novel-in-a-month scheme works wonders for others, but I won’t do it. Actually, for me, I think at most it might produce a bare-bones plot that could be reworked into a novel later [...]

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on break; will be back to regular posting soon

This is just a post to say that I haven’t had time for blogging lately, and this will likely continue for another week or so. I will be back to posting regularly and visiting my favorite blogs as soon as other projects/responsibilities are taken care of. Also, I will begin revising my novel on October 4.

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excuses, excuses

My short story with the deadline of yesterday? Not done.
Word count as of this second? 3290 with maybe 1000 to go.
Excuses? Many: Fourth of July last Friday, graduation party Sunday at my house with lots of prep and then all the cleaning up, new front door and sidelights being installed today (which looks really nice [...]

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a room of one’s own…

…and a door that locks.
I don’t have either of these things. I sit at my computer and write in the middle of all the traffic and noise and chaos of my house.
My next writing goal is to buy a lap-top. It won’t eliminate all the interruptions, but at least it will enable me to choose my own writing space.

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