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Holding the Fear — January’s Life & Fiction Column
If you’ve been around a while you’ve probably seen me reference The Perilous Gard, a book I feel deeply connected to. This month’s essay combines that book with one of my personal wrestlings: How do we...
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What Connects with…Me
Image courtesy of Liana Bitoli via stock.xchng I found a “coach,” at the end of last year, because most of what I do with my counselor seemed to be coaching, anyway. I was looking for an “outside”...
View ArticleNoveling Update
I have officially finished the first draft of my 2013 NaNo novel (Sherlockian Daze). Word count is just under 120K, and I did that in just under 5 months. Which is a super-exciting first for me. Next...
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The Necessary Fight: Helping My Depressed Child (Wyn Magazine)
I had to have enough conviction for the whole family when I knew it was depression. That effort on top of the grief, guilt, and personal disappointment was so draining, I couldn’t do anything beyond...
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Acknowledgements (aka My Book is Out)
The book is out in the world. (Here, too, if you prefer Kobo over Amazon.) It would be really encouraging if you bought a copy, or shared it with a friend, or left a review. With that out of the way, I...
View ArticleLindorm Queen in Process
I chose to self-publish Lindorm Kingdom, because it had been sitting too long for me to do something else first. It was a matter of something like fairness, and also insecurity. The story represented...
View ArticleHardest Writing I’ve Done in a While
I currently have the first regular writing schedule since I began ~10 years ago. The first three hours my kids are gone, I sit down and work on Lindorm Queen. It helps by having a straight focus (makes...
View ArticleThe Convergence of Expertise
It started out badly enough: a journalism background muddying the waters of my novel-creating. My scrupulosity — the need to cite/confirm/reality-check everything — was getting in the way of just...
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It is still my biggest challenge in storytelling that I cannot select the *perfect* words for a given tale and be done with my work on it. The work is the continual internalization of the story...
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Writer Mama
Today, out of nowhere, Elisha said, “You’re a great storyteller, Mama.” Tonight Natasha saw me starting in on cleaning the kitchen while she was on her way to bed. “Why start cleaning now?” “I just...
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