Month: June 2009
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Stress, Migraines, and Stuff You Love
As noted elsewhere—I hauled ass like nobody’s business for eight months to create a way for me to write the novel I wanted to write without having to do it to anybody’s specifications but my own. My mad plan worked, and for the first time since I was an RN, I had a regular, reasonable…
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Adding A New Way To Pay
Over the last three or so years, since I brought out Create A Character Clinic, I’ve had requests to add another way to pay besides PayPal. I’m finally able to do so, and am looking at three alternative methods. (PayPal will remain my preferred method, but I want to be able to meet the needs…
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About 1450 words to count for today
The red-headed fiddler reappeared, and gave Aleksa a gift and a warning. I’d like to write more, but that’s going to have to count for today. I have the survey results about tallied, and want to do the next Writer Crash Test. Download as PDFPrint Page
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Can’t say it’s going well
In the last two hours, I’ve gotten 404 words. I can add last night’s 500 to the mix, but that still puts me at around 900. I did have an excellent talk with Linda at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, and got some necessary and wonderful details about the ISAW, the…
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Writing the Novel: Math Hurts
I’ve done the math on Dreaming the Dead, but it isn’t adding up to the kind of progress I want to see. This year, I’ve had The Silver Door come out in hardcover, The Ruby Key come out in paperback, and Hawkspar come out in paperback. And I had the short story “Light Through Fog”…
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Short night gone
588 words tonight. I’m too tired to pursue my hero, who is following his own bitter past down the dark hole of tragic music. He’ll discover the single thread of connection he has left between himself and my heroine while he’s basking in the cello—and realize he’s left murderers with a motive to kill her.…
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“It’s beautiful”
Some moments define us—define a place and time, who we are to ourselves and to each other, what we are about. And those moments we hang onto desperately, because they come unexpectedly, they are so fleeting, and if lost, we lose a part of who we are with them. In the course of planning out…
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Think Sideways Is Up and Running
I’m posting this a lot of places, because there’s one issue that I hadn’t counted on when shutting down the course so we could do upgrades. The new version requires members to check a box to receive critical e-mail updates (which is good, and will make my site host much happier)—BUT NO ONE has clicked…
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A Quote from Abraham Lincoln
I got this in an email this morning, and thought I would pass it along to you: “You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer…
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Think Sideways Students: Course Software Upgrade Downtime
The much-awaited and frequently delayed upgrade of the How To Think Sideways classroom and forum software starts on Wednesday. No one will be able to access ANYTHING on Think Sideways between Wednesday June 10 and (most likely) Friday June 12. No one will be able to sign up for the course during that time, either.…