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  • In with the new year!

    I don’t set New Year’s resolutions. I prefer to think of things in terms of guidelines rather than rules, and saying something like “In 2016 I will finally organize the storage closet in the garage!” feels more like a burden than something to look forward to. (And it’s not even that cluttered of a closet.)…

  • Fictional logistics

    I am in the middle of a logistical nightmare. I’m working on chapters 16 and 17 of unnamed novel #2. There are only nineteen days left to figure out the title…but that’s another topic. 🙂 Chapter 16 is the beginning of the climax of the book. There are two critical scenes, one leading to the…

  • More learning

    Last night I turned in my second short story assignment for the anthology workshop I’m taking – yay!!! It was a lot easier than the first assignment (no surfing in this one!), but it still was an awful lot of work. I came up with an idea right away, and I felt that it would…