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BOOM – First week in the can #NaNoWriMo
11/8/14 Holy crap, the first week of NaNo is in the can. And I’m still writing. I’m so not a write-by-the-seat-of-my-pants kind of gal. I WANT to be a pantser but I’m not. I planned, I researched, I outlined, I read, I
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#NANO FIRST-TIMER
November 1 – IT’S NANO TIME Before I get into opining on #NANOWRIMO I should point out that for a long time I was a medical transcriptionist, working out of my house. Yeah, it was awesome. In medical transcription we use lots of short hand in Word, like sob automatically spits out shortness of breath,…
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How writing a novel healed my heart
Steve’s been gone for almost three and a half years now. The thought comes out of the blue, in the middle of revising a scene in my manuscript. I’ve had other losses since Steve; my aunt in February, my mother in March after years of watching her suffer. It
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A football girl’s dilemma
Hooray!! BEARS WIN! BEARS WIN! I am a football girl (a long-time, long-suffering but ever hopeful diehard Bears fan) who cheered last night’s win over the Jets on Monday Night Football. GO BEARS! I am also a woman, a feminist even, horrified and disgusted by the