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Perspective Conundrum for Compendium
I’m glad to report that I have the general plot of my first Compendium novel worked out. I currently have a four page synopsis drafted. I definitely need to work more on my world-building, but I will...
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Act 1: Derailed by the Bubons
Since I’m too fuzzy-headed to actually get any writing done, I figured I would publish a blog post whining about how I contracted the Bubons (i.e., the common cold) from one of my darling nephews or...
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Compendium Excerpt
Even balled into tight fists, she was sure that her shaking hands betrayed her fear and rage. Mia Jayne stood before the representatives of the Order of Vis Firmitas, her eyes taking in the rough-hewn...
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NaNoWriMoNerves
NaNoWriMo is coming! T-minus 4 days and counting. I am pretty nervous, especially since I have already been falling behind on my manuscript as it is. I am not even through the end of Act 1, which is...
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Merlin’s Beard!
This post doesn’t actually have to do with Merlin’s beard, but I have the phrase stuck in my head from re-watching a bunch of Harry Potter movies. This post is actually a recap of NaNoWriMo Day 1. I...
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Insanity – Day 4 as a WriMo
Too bad every month isn’t NaNoWriMo! I say that, but if it were, I would probably keel over pretty quickly. By day 7 of NaNoWriMo I will have doubled my total word count for Compendium, which is great....
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NaNoThon & Recap
Despite my reservations about being able to keep a pace of 1,667 words per day during November, I have have more or less been keeping up. This has been encouraging, although I have been pretty worried...
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Surgery Analogies FTW?
It’s day 14 of NaNoWriMo, and I’m totally physically exhausted. I am actually ahead in my writing by a couple of days, and it has not been too much trouble sustaining momentum, but I find that between...
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Murakami and Mortality
I feel almost guilty taking a break from Compendium during NaNoWriMo to write this blog post about Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, but I just finished it yesterday, and I want to get my...
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I Won NaNoWriMo!
Well, today, I can finally publish a blog post without feeling guilty. It is Day 23 of NaNoWriMo, and I passed the 50,000 word mark! Yes, I won my very first time doing NaNoWriMo, and it feels great. I...
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The Secret Life of… All of Us!
I know that I haven’t written as much lately on this blog as I should. I am only about 20,000 words from finishing the first draft of COMPENDIUM. I hoped to have the first draft done by 2013 year end,...
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Navigating the Breach
My first draft of COMPENDIUM is almost complete. I have over 90,000 words written. I will likely finish the first draft in the next couple of weeks, but I have taken a break to write up a book...
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I Wrote a Novel (First Draft Done)!
Well, I have officially written a novel now! I just typed the last scene of the first draft of COMPENDIUM, and I can check writing a novel off of my bucket list. I’m super excited, but I know how much...
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Self-Loathing to Avoid Self-Editing?
COMPENDIUM manuscript (sorry, didn’t have a dinosaur for perspective, but yes, that is a blue canary in an outlet by a light switch in the background) Behold! To the right is the first draft manuscript...
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Camp NaNoWriMo
Because I had such a successful NaNoWriMo, and because I now have a new project on the horizon, I decided to take advantage of the Camp NaNoWriMo summer session and signed up to participate. I will be...
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Evolution of a Book Proposal
Thursday of last week, I finally turned my revised book proposal for my non-fiction privacy and data security book to the agent who I have been working with. It took me almost three weeks to make the...
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nolite te basterdes corborun… oh you know what I mean!
I revisited and revised a blog post from over a year ago to submit to Vermont College of Fine Arts as a critical essay on an application and thought that I would post it here. It is (hopefully) quite a...
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Podcast Review: Voices Lost in Snow
A colleague of mine turned me on to the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, and I am shocked that I did not already know about it. If you have not heard of it, every month a well-known author reads a short...
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Rember the Good Times
I arrived at my house this evening completely and entirely exhausted. Today sucked the energy from my body through a series of small, unpleasant, and stress-filled tasks. That happens sometimes. I...
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Signs and Symbols… Symbols and Signs
Well, it was another exhausting work week for me, and unfortunately, I have more to do this weekend as well. On the way back from a very late dinner at Cracker Barrel (no judgment!), my partner and I...
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