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Category Archives: Writing
NaNoFeed: Live from the Traditional Tour (Blue Moon Coffee Cafe and the Purple Bar!)
So I’m on the final leg of my version of the Twin Cities Region Writing Tour (Traditional Route). We’re hanging out at the Blue Moon Coffee Cafe, which is a delightfully atmospheric cafe of the kind enamored of writers, students, … Continue reading
NaNoFeed: Live from the Traditional Tour! (Warning: Death by Crossbow)
Here we are now at Jackson’s Coffee and Gelato, a cozy and writer-friendly location on Minneapolis’s Lake Street, rich in electrical outlets, cozy atmosphere, and yummy eats (I highly recommend the black chocolate gelato, as well as the roasted almond). … Continue reading
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NaNoFeed: Live from the Writing Tour (Traditional Route), with Excerpt!
Writing now in the spacious back room of Depot Coffee, a coffee place in Hopkins, Minnesota that (as name indicates) used to be a railway station. Thirteen of us are writing around a big table, racking up word count and … Continue reading
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NaNoFeed: And the Groove Returns, in Force! (with Excerpt!)
This morning I tried out the new walking work station (with my keyboard resting on the tray on the new treadmill in my workout location). And it went swimmingly. While walking on the treadmill, I wrote approximately 1500 words of … Continue reading
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Weekend Writing Warriors, Sunday 16 November 2014 (NaNoFeed)
Martisset smiled at something her namesake was saying (as yet there was no sound) and the drums rolled over her reply to him. She helped Martisset the Elder walk to the place where the Great Shipwright had saluted the likenesses of … Continue reading
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NaNoFeed: excerpt from WIP novel The Fourth Prime
This one’s moving along slowly, but it is my Official NaNoWriMo Project. It’s a continuation of the story from Inside the Jump (NaNo 2013). So, without further ado…
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NaNoFeed: Midnight, and a new excerpt! (Romance with Rayguns, NaNo 2014 WIP)
Another fabulous afternoon at the Minneapolis Central Library write-in, and I scored over 3000 words. That’s still slow (some of my companions cracked 10,000) but I’m really happy with the scenes I wrote. I’ve stepped over the threshold into my … Continue reading
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NaNoFeed: Northern Tour, after the fact (Wilde Roast Cafe)
For the last stop of the night, the Northern Tour came to Wilde Roast Cafe, a venue that holds a well-deserved warm spot in my writerly heart. This is the place where I’ve sipped a mocha and carried on chats … Continue reading
Weekend Writing Warriors, Sunday 9 November 2014 (NaNoFeed)
Xue turned her head in the direction of Hernan’s glance, and swore, “Fuckin’ hull-breach with feet. Tikhon.” “Language,” Timur said, in his capacity as elder sibling. Hernan, on the other hand, laughed aloud. “That’s a pretty succinct translation,” he said. … Continue reading
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NaNoFeed: Live from the Northern Tour! (Lunch is a many-splendored thing)
So now we’re at Geek Partnership Society here in Northeast Minneapolis, where we have all unpacked our lunch and are nibbling and/or crunching and/or typing/scribbling away. There are cozy sofas and cold northern light out of a Vermeer still-life blessing … Continue reading