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Hockey Lockout — grrr

I’ll update my NaNo info shortly, but right now I want to complain about the hockey lockout. I don’t have really anything interesting to add.   The man here says it all.  I spent all of the Thanksgiving Holiday trying to … Continue reading

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The Back Passage and more about me

Sunday I wrote a little over five hundred words.  I lifted, deleted, rewrote and tightened about 4500, so coming out ahead was a small miracle.  Except I’m not done deleting. I was in the car for around six hours yesterday.  … Continue reading

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The Color Not-quite-purple

I didn’t write yesterday because I was getting the guest room ready for Thanksgiving. This old house has popcorn ceiling texture that is unbearably ugly.  Room by room, I’m getting rid of it.  The first room I did was the … Continue reading

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Spaminator attack!

I wrote a thousand words yesterday.  I can see the story in there.  It was there all along, but buried under so many story arcs I was lost.  I think things are better now.  Leaner and meaner though I have … Continue reading

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Two Unrelated Things

Well, I’ve hit the bottom of the deletion cycle, I think.  I wrote 500 words today beyond what I deleted.  There is still a lot to get rid of, but the character arcs have tightened somewhat.  I feel so insecure … Continue reading

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Writing Backwards

Yesterday I ‘fixed’ a chapter.  Which means I wrote 1000 words more or less, but deleted about 1800.  I’m down 685.  I don’t know if it’s better or worse, but at least I’m working on it.

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NaNoWriMo

I’ve never done it but it seems like it might be the kick in the butt I need, so I’m going to do the NaNoWriMo on ‘If Not for You’ this month. On my first day I wrote 1200 words … Continue reading

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A MAN, A JERSEY AND A TIGHT END will be released tomorrow, November 29 by Loose id.  HERE The sequel to "Goldilocks and His Three Bears" with a good editing pass by the amazing Judi and a few tweaks by … Continue reading

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A very nice review of ‘Goldilocks’ on livejournal

Elisa Rolle has posted a very nice review of 'Goldilocks and His Three Bears' on her live journal here.

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Goldilocks and His Three Bears now available at Loose id!

Goldilocks and His Three Bears is available again! Loose id has re-released my m/m Domestic Discipline menage a quatre, with new editing and a bit of re-writing here and there, plus yummy new cover! Check it out!

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