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I quack me up: Two-fer

Posted on March 24, 2012 by

Two excerpts from the third Sunshine Line book:

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I Quack Me Up 2

Posted on March 17, 2012 by

As I mentioned in the last post, I am editing my cancer blog thingy. (I are good with words.) I came across this and giggled, so I hope you will too: They got me in the OR and onto the … Continue reading →

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You Think Editing Is Hard?

Posted on March 17, 2012 by

Try not editing.

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Where’s My Magic Button?

Posted on March 16, 2012 by

I write fantasy, right? Well, maybe you didn’t know that. But I do. So why can’t I come up with some magic that takes a finished novel and turns it into a book someone can buy? I just want to … Continue reading →

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A special brand of crazy?

Posted on March 4, 2012 by

I know, from talking to other writers, that I’m not the only one who experiences this. Here’s the deal: I think of my characters as having a separate identity from me. They aren’t just my creations, they have a will … Continue reading →

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To blog or not to blog

Posted on March 3, 2012 by

I resisted the idea of doing a blog for a long long time.

For one thing, everybody was doing it. A few years back, it seemed like almost everybody on the internet had one. Some were highly successful, but most were read by few or none. Send your mind back in time, back before Twitter. A lot of people were saying not much and could have said it in a couple hundred characters, had they had any self-restraint.

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