Category: About Me
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Embrace Your Flamingo
Writing is a lonely business. Sure, inspiration comes from the world around you, but it can only become your unique combination and cadence of sounds from the confines of your tiny, cozy writing closet. Writers agree: the act of writing is a solo enterprise. The odd worldview, the passion, and the drive, can make one…
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Keep in Touch…
Imagine sitting at a luscious table set for a day of Thanksgiving. Golden candlelight reflects in the wine or water in faceted goblets. Mounds of roasted, braised, smoked, even fried meats are surrounded by fruits and vegetables of every color of the rainbow. Maybe the table is carved from mahogany or oak. Maybe it is…
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Betwixt Between…
This Wednesday I find myself both returning home and preparing to gather with loved ones for an early Thanksgiving tradition of family, friends, and food (lots of food). These days we take what time together we can grasp if only for a few days or one big meal and while we miss those who can’t…
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Confessions of a blogger…
These Wednesday posts are meant to share my joys/frustrations/challenges of sending my written words into the big wide world. Today I confess two things. One, I am still finessing the posting world via this wonderful wordpress site. For example, I sometimes pre-post and schedule them to go live a few days later. But today I…
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Pushing and Pulling
This Wednesday I am pushing against some self-imposed deadlines, while being pulled toward new and exciting goals. I have recently participated in a constructive pitching roundtable (during which I felt both woefully unprepared and unexpectedly encouraged) while continuing online classes with the Kauai Writers Conference. Pushing to refine and refine and refine novel pitches, loglines…
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Technical Glitches Abound…
That is a terrible title for my Wednesday post about my publishing journey, but sadly fitting. Some of you may have popped on last week and seen a lovely post on Monday. Now it is gone. Even the helpful people at wordpress couldn’t find it. But here’s the good news – I changed my standard…
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Wandering in the Writing World
This week I am continuing my journey of writing, revising and researching publishing options. Although I was not selected to try out for the pilot episode of America’s Next Great Author (see earlier post on the Wandering page), I have been in contact with the creators and heard some encouraging feedback. Plus it was tons…
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