This is a largish post… of Haul. I sold four boxes of books, got an enormous amount of store credit, and came home with… 27 new books. I am so very happy; my shelves are so very not. (Where will I put all of you, my darlings?)
I can’t in good conscience post this without a [...]

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I never posted this week’s Booking Through Thursday; it requires writing and I just can’t think of something at this moment, so I’m waiting on it. Got a character name for my short story; story has no codename yet so I don’t know what to tag it. May have found a character name for my [...]

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Lately it seems like my Mondays are impossible and no blogging occurs. It annoys me; not sure what to do about it. Yesterday I woke up to so much work email that it took all day just to get down to single-digits unread.
Last night I started note-taking on my sci-fi short story; in earnest, this [...]

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The problem with getting deep about my writing and choice of genres is that then — if you’re me — you have an incredibly strange week and spend what little time you have trying to catch up on work. And no time whatsoever on writing. And then feel lame because you haven’t written.
So the most [...]

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I’ve tried and tried to blog — all week, I’ve tried — and I’ve got a bad case of Blank White Page syndrome. Just… IMPOSSIBLE… to get started. Or, once started, to finish. (There’s a draft of this post already; I’m starting from scratch.)
I read (and watch, and world-build and dream about) a LOT of [...]

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I’ve decided to write a short story — well, my writing goals tell me I have to — as I’ve found the perfect contest to enter. (I think I have enough books for research/inspiration. I think. Do you think?)
I’m nervous. I haven’t written much of anything that qualifies as short fiction. But I also feel [...]

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Once my desktop was bare (still giving me starts now and again, thinking Finder has crashed), I became acutely aware of how very plain, homely and folder-like the few folders I have there are. I spent last night in an external hard drive quest for icons. My “to the external drive” folder is a Japanese [...]

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