Category: Everything Writing
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Tales of Winter–part 1
On a cold, snowy morning in the winter of 1979 or ’80, still dressed in my warm, flannel nightgown, I heard a loud squawking clearly coming from INSIDE my home. A bird, most likely a robin, had somehow come down the chimney and gotten stuck on the closed flue.
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Origin Story
**Disclaimer: Prepare for an overload of Marvel references in this one. Sorry about that. I got a smidge carried away. Let’s just call it an extended metaphor, shall we? I am no superhero, but I am a hero to someone. With my one-year transplant-aversary coming up in the next few days, I am continuing to…
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NaNoWriMo
Happy Tuesday, October 21! I wanted to take a moment to announce that for the month of November, I will be participating in the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) challenge to write a novel (or 50,000 words) in one month (https://nanowrimo.org/). Today, I completed the prep courses they recommend taking before you embark on writing,…
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Breaking Through
Today I hit a milestone. Early this morning as my five year old and my French bulldog slept close by, I submitted my 50th query to solicit an agent to represent my manuscript. If you are not a writer or have never submitted a query, it can be quite an arduous process. I have been…
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