A Broken Laptop

Last night our friends were playing at the Cheyenne Saloon.  We caught Atlas Takes Aim (Go Billie and Mason!) and were hoping to catch Hello! Astro (Go Ryan!) but we had to bail before they came on.  Our babysitter was only 14, after all, and was nearly asleep by the time we came home smelling [...]

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So I was talking to my friend about query letters, and she suggested that I contact an author from our writers group and pose some of my questions.  He has a thriller series out, he seems genuinely friendly, and I’d spoken to him briefly before, so I decided to follow her advice.  I emailed and [...]

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Last night’s writer’s group meeting was exactly what  I needed.  Query polished, confidence boosted, all systems go.  This week I’ll send out my RunStarGirl queries.  Hooray!

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I find myself defending Facebook, and I’m not really sure why.  I’m not crazy over it myself, although I love having old friends resurface.  I’m taking a brief Facebook hiatus.  It’s leeching my time away, and I don’t have the time to leech.  I need to write. It’s difficult with small kids at home.  I’m [...]

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Everybody in my house fell asleep early tonight, so I used that time to write a story.  Miss Muse and I folded our wings and worked together nicely.  The result is titled “The Container of Sorrows”.  It is a soft thing of tragic beauty inspired partly by Mark Ryden’s “Night Visit”.  It uses the words “exquisite” [...]

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Enough of this.  “Write in the same place and your muse will know where to find you.”  Or “Be prepared for your muse to descend upon you with illumination.”  Mmm, not gonna fly.  We all know that I have a set amount of patience, and it has run out.  I’m tracking that muse down, trussing [...]

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was a disappointing day in all regards.  It’s one of the ones that you slog through, promising yourself that tomorrow you can wake up and forget that today ever happened.  Tomorrow I’m going to watch The Dark Crystal, because it has been popping up in almost all of my conversations lately.  And if anybody comes [...]

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42 pieces out.  Just sayin’.   Pieces out: 42 Goal: 40!  I’m an overachiever!

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My poem “dreams of color 1997-2008″ just went live on The.  The editor emailed me back saying that he liked the poem except for a final floating line that just made the whole thing silly.  I thought, “Hmmm,” and reread it, and -oh, the humanity!- he was absolutely right.  This stranger just managed to save me [...]

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I needed caffeine.  And chocolate.  And then more caffeine. Yesterday I unscrewed the top of my head off for a while and set it aside.  It was the best possible thing that I could have done. The writer’s group was amazing.  Reading and critiquing is a way that keeps your mind engaged even while it’s [...]

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