Category Archives: Creative Process

LOSING MY RELIGION, PART 5: YOU ARE ALL POWERFUL

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A Level Playing Field Really pay attention to this: You are competing on the same level playing field as most other authors right now. This bears repeating. You are competing on the same level playing field as most other authors … Continue reading

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THE SUMMER I DREAMED OF EPIC

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It rained the other day. Just a little. Just enough to dampen the street and remind us Southern Californians that there is more to life than summer. I am just as surprised as everyone else. So I checked, and it … Continue reading

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SANDWICHES: A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

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I thought this would be a good time to sit down and discuss a very important topic to writers…and other types of “humans”:  FOOD. You spend hours a day hunched in front of the computer, spooling out dreamstuff to hopefully … Continue reading

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SPRING FEVER — I HAZ IT!

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Sometimes the best thing you can do for your writing is to get out from behind the computer and visit dimensions of the world that don’t depend on high-speed internet.  I decided the other day, after more than a week … Continue reading

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NINJA SHOES IN JEOPARDY

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I really thought I was scraping bottom when I wrote a flash fiction piece while clamped onto my seat by my butt cheeks as my co-Ninja-assassin-driver swerved through dead-man curves at 60 miles per hour on our way to our … Continue reading

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FRIDAY NIGHT VINO

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It’s been a long week, ladies and jellybeans.  Let’s recap, shall we? Besides playing roustabout to a bunch of wishy-washy dinosaurs (“The dry ice won’t last forever, reptiles!”); applying baking soda poultices to a spider bite that just won’t go … Continue reading

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WORKSPACE WEDNESDAY

It has taken many weeks and some celestial intervention (a fortune cookie told me organization would set me free), but my own workspace is now ready to ride in the Workspace Wednesday Parade. My husband and I bought our house … Continue reading

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IS IT BETTER WHEN IT HURTS?

Not to perpetuate the romantic notion of writerly angst and the joy of squeezing blood from one’s forehead, but for this writer at least, there seems to be two types of stories:  the ones that write themselves, raining down from … Continue reading

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WORKSPACE WEDNESDAY

This may seem like a bit of a cheat, but it actually isn’t since this really is one of my primary creative workspaces.  I’m still in the midst of a draft, and the office is still in the midst of … Continue reading

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MONDAY WORK DAY

This whole transferring the blog over to my own domain has been an exercise of complete and utter blundering…and yet, things look relatively normal around here.  This is the perception I like to cultivate. I have to say I am … Continue reading

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