Are you a Nanowrimo winner this year? Nanowrimo is over for another year. To those of you who finished and won this year, I salute you and congratulate you heartily! There is nothing quite like that feeling of relief and accomplishment. Take yourself out and celebrate well, because the next step is revising that tangled [...]

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They’re not always either good or bad. The last several days have been a bit busy and exciting. First, my baby sister (Who has started a poetry blog which you should definitely check out. She has some talent, though she doesn’t have much up yet.) turned 18. This is pretty big for me. She always [...]

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And some other tid-bits too. This past week I started my new job. It’s nothing exciting, just a temporary minimum wage job to keep us afloat while I search for something with an actual salary and benefits. It would be lovely to put my degree to some use as well. However, for now I’m just [...]

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Boxes are for cats and children to play in, not to put yourself in. Throughout much of our lives we can spend a lot of time fighting against being put into some box or another. Especially when we’re younger, we resist being labelled, boxed in, enclosed in boundaries, or however we decide to explain our [...]

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I was going to call this post “Bumps for Hump-day” but thought that sounded less than PG! I thought I might take today to talk about some* of my favorite places around the internet, particularly those connected with writing. This way, I can also try to send some more Readers to places/people whose work I [...]

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“It is not the beginning of the end, merely the end of the beginning.” These words are particularly appropriate this week, as I finish out Nanowrimo. Tomorrow is the final day, at which time I will have my very first finished novel. Of course, I say finished, but as stated above, this is an illusion. [...]

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