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The Future is Accessible
The future of stories isn’t just about what we tell, but who gets to experience them.
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How Explosions Improve Pacing in Romance
Okay, fine—I admit it. I blow things up in my romantic suspense and sci-fi books. Fictionally. With explosions. Trust me, that’s me putting the fun in “functionally paced.”
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My Meet & Greet with My Characters
I was taught from a young age to be modest about my accomplishments. This made it hard to promote my books. In fact, at times, it is just outright painful. There is one exception to that: my characters. Why aren’t I modest about them? Because a part of me believes they come to me to…
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My Muse is a Cat
I was talking with my daughter about my woes in summoning my muse during a pandemic and my brain fog. Yes, I was in the whine-one-one zone. Way in it. My daughter listened very patiently and then she said, “Your muse sounds like my cats.” It was a huge lightbulb moment! My muse is a…
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I’d Rather Be Reading
Okay, that’s not completely true, but it is kind of true. Usually, I spend the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas reading holiday stories, or just catching up on my reading. For instance, for the last few years, I’ve been working my way through a massive collection of Christmas mysteries that my daughter gave me several…
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Come On In! The Water’s Cold!
Years ago, when my son was a home-schooling high school student, he asked if he could research my writing business so he could understand how a business works. He came back a week later, his eyes wide and said, “Mom, you’re in a crazy business.” I agreed and he asked, “Why do you do it?”…
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Snake Charming My Muse
Being a writer often feels like snake charming. Yes, I just called my Muse a snake and I will pay for that later. Or possibly right now. Ouch. Yes, paid for it now. I don’t know if other creatives feel a push/pull thing going on with their own brain. To get the words flowing, I…
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Meet My Muse…Symbolically
I was digging around in the hub’s photo stream, looking for some blog inspiration and found the above photo. Visually it is pretty cool, IMHO, but beyond that I was like, wow, that reminds me of how stories come to me. I’m a pantster, an into-the-mist, have-no-clue-what-is-going-to-happen-next novelist. So this image is kind of like…
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Sagging Middles Suck Dead Toads
I had sagging middles on the brain when I saw this photo in the hubs Flickr feed. Gravity has not been kind to my middle, but that’s not actually the middle plaguing me at the moment. Or should I say it is not the only middle plaguing me. O.O As an author, I fear the…