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Small business and dreams.
I realized something about myself and running a small business the other day: I don’t want to do just anything. I want to tell stories. I started three small businesses […]
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Change of heart, mid-story.
The following post contains some spoilers for my future book, Night Falls. Don’t keep reading if you want to be surprised! * * * * I just finished writing a […]
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Being mean to myself
I’ve been continuing to build on the life coaching principles that I picked up last year, and they are continuing to help me unwind some of my writing troubles and […]
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All done!
I took last week off from my day job, mostly in order to decompress from the busy season, but as long as I was going to be at loose ends, […]
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I think one of my favorite authors is self-publishing.
When I started this blog, I started a list on a notepad on my phone of subjects I might blog about. I add to it, delete from it, grab ideas […]
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Finding the theme of my novel.
About twenty years ago, I attended a workshop at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis by this title. Well, not “Finding the Theme of My Novel,” rather “Finding the Theme […]
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I am pro-choice.
I had written out a couple of blog posts in advance so I could just press “publish” and have something new this week. But then the Supreme Court went ahead […]
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Creepy true story
When I was in high school, I hung out with a rough crowd. I never got too deep into the really bad aspects. Some of my former high school friends […]
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My struggle with plot structure.
And struggle I have. I feel like it’s not an unusual struggle. When a person first starts writing, there’s a ton of information out there on how to make your […]
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Mythopoeia vs. urban fantasy.
I LOVE mythopoeia. I didn’t know that was what it was called until a few years ago. And I didn’t know there was a difference between that and urban fantasy […]
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