My Crush on Brevity

My vacation in Mexico is about to end with no further adventures other than watching (“watching”) the Super Bowl with a spanish commentary and spotting a gecko living under the TV. So rather than put up another long-winded account of my day lounging around, here is an ode to the delights of brevity.
A couple weeks [...]

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Extra Tacky Year-In-Review Letter

Tis the season to receive letters from your far-flung friends and family telling you all about what they, their children, and their pets have accomplished during the past year. I really enjoy this time-honored tradition, since it is frequently the only time I get news from people who haven’t been sucked into Facebook yet.
And there [...]

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A treasury of writing wisdom

As I near the end of my 50,000 word goal (6,500 words away!!), I find myself in need of a little encouragement. The NaNoWriMo organizers said that Week 2 was supposed to be the hardest, after the novelty wears off and you’ve gotten through the rush of first ideas. In my case, they’re wrong. My [...]

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Writing Is Joy

I am on a writing buzz – an actual heart-pumping-dance-a-jig-around-the-kitchen buzz. I’m doing NaNoWriMo, you see, and I’m not losing. Yay me!

For those of you who may not be familiar with NaNoWriMo, it stands for National Novel Writing Month, and that is November. It is also an event – a bunch of crazy people from [...]

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Customize Me!

In honor of all the delightful free time I’ve had in the last couple days, I’ve gotten back into the habit of blogging and find myself thinking “why do I sometimes forget how much I like to tell people what I think?” So I’ll be better now.
The old theme I had for my [...]

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The Twilight Saga & Why It Shouldn’t Piss You Off

Hello my much neglected blog! Something about beautiful weather in the summer and my current revulsion toward sitting at a desk all day makes it difficult to spend any time typing at a computer that isn’t strictly necessary. But there’s a topic that’s rattling in my brain, so I might as well have out with [...]

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Reality vs. Fiction

I found a quote I really love today, which completely sums up the whole philosophy behind this blog:
The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to be credible.
- Mark Twain

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Illustrating Absurdity

In my spare time these days, I am editing a manuscript for a novel written by a family member. It’s turned into quite an undertaking, likely because I am a little anal retentive when it comes to coherent writing. I’m having to learn to let stylistic differences by, and I think I’m getting better at [...]

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I Heart Books – REAL Books – Especially MY Books

I’ve read two e-books, both while I was in Belgium and didn’t have access to a well-stocked library of English-language literature. I found the experience rather irritating, but also rather pleasing. It was irritating because I couldn’t curl up with my book in bed or shove it in my purse to take with me, but [...]

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Writing is Wonderful

A good friend of mine started a blog today. Well, technically yesterday. What am I doing up so late??
I’ll tell you what: I’ve got a bug to write something down, and when that happens, there’s no point in turning out the lights and pulling up the covers until I get it out. Words string themselves [...]

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