Category Archives: Writing

NaNoFeed: A picture worth a thousand words

Talked last night with Writing Buddy Devin Harnois about the cover design I have in mind for her opus Emma and the Air Pirates and it grows more real the more I talk about it. I decided a while ago … Continue reading

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NaNoFeed: The Long Strange Trip

The long strange trip is the only reason I write at all. It’s like reading, except this time I’m in the driver’s seat. I get to live other lives, and go places that are impossible … if not impossible for … Continue reading

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Six Sentence Sunday, 6 November 2011 (Annie Brown and the Superhero Blues)

The Picture disturbed her because it hid the secret that none of them, not Apollo and Sunny, not Annie and Rafe, had wanted to go to prom. Their parents had had such a good time at their prom. For all … Continue reading

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NaNoFeed: And here’s the excerpt! (link)

So (until October 2012, when they clear the NaNoWriMo site for the re-launch) here is the link to some excerpts from The Necromancer and the Barbarian: A Love Story. Feel free to comment here!

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NaNoFeed: The Gothick Muse

Some people have an Internal Editor. I have a Board of Censors, the fearsome chief of whom is a dread character whom I’ve nicknamed Pollyanna Candyass. She insists that everything be Nice. No conflict, no ugliness, no nasty people doing … Continue reading

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NaNoFeed: Patron Saints

Even though I left off being Catholic a long long time ago (let’s just say: before the fall of the Berlin Wall) certain notions have stayed with me, just because they are useful. One such: patron saints, mere mortals who … Continue reading

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NaNoFeed: Day one!

It’s four o’clock in the afternoon and I’ve been camping out at the cafe since 8:30am. At 2pm I was joined by good writing buddy Devin Harnois, and we’ve been alternating bouts of writing with reading to each other. I’ve … Continue reading

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NaNoFeed: Between the Worlds

Today we’re on the eve of National Novel Writing Month, which coincides with one of my favorite holidays. In all of its faces, be it the Eve of All Saints, Halloween, Day of the Dead, or Samhain, this holiday celebrates … Continue reading

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Six Sentence Sunday, 30 October 2011 (Annie Brown and the Superhero Blues)

Beulah Mae and Martin had been as brilliant as the sparkling cusp of a wave driving in to the beach at Waikiki with the force of three thousand miles of Pacific behind it. Behind them swelled the hopes and ambitions … Continue reading

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NaNoFeed: Who are your people? A magic tool for finding out!

The best part of National Novel Writing Month is reading the forums and picking up new and interesting ideas about how to write. Once in a while I encounter something truly magical that revolutionizes my practice as a writer. So … Continue reading

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