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Reverb #10 – Day 3 – Moment

December 3 – Moment. Pick one moment during which you felt most alive this year. Describe it in vivid detail (texture, smells, voices, ...


Reverb10: Writing

  Prompt: What do you do each day that doesn’t contribute to your writing — and can you eliminate it? I'll tell ya, ...


Today in Editing

I've been editing the same chapter for hours, and it's not even a chapter with a lot of changes.I'm learning to edit I need to ...


Strapping m’ big girl boots on

Oh, where did October go? Thanksgiving and Hallowe'en, Board meetings, Tinfoilman Triathalons, visiting with friends, overtime. Busy month. I've been working during this month, writing. ...


Query Day, Aftermath

4 request for partials, 1 personalized rejection, and 3 form rejections. Plus, I found this page - On Failing. I've been dealing with an above average ...


Other unverifiable claims

Right now I'm reading a book called "The Undiscovered Mind", which someone gave me because I'm a huge nerd in this area, and I cannot ...


Thoughts after Meeting.

So, as most of you know, I'm a Quaker. (And not of the Oats or Oil variety, although briefly in grade ... 8? people called me Oats. ...


You don’t mind a haircut nice and close, do you?

So, this editing is going well. I have my query, and I've written out my major subplots, and now I'm going through cutting everything that ...


Writing the Query – Before Editing.

Today, I sat down and wrote my query. Much to my immense relief, it was far, far easier to write than my query for Eureka ...


A life less stinky

More compost posting! I make a lot of produce based kitchen scraps, and this is mainly what my compost was eating. Now, all the books suggested ...