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wash your hands afterward

September 3, 2009 – 2:00 pm

So. Don’t tell anybody but I seem to be re-working my manuscript. The first one. From 1998. There’s no good reason for this, except for the fact that there is clearly something wrong with me (and also I’m waiting to hear back from any of my several beta readers before I can do another draft [...]

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buckle up, buckle down

February 12, 2009 – 12:05 am

I may be the only person who takes a vacation to write a novel.
To be fair, the damned thing’s about 80% finished already. Well, maybe 75%. The point is, I’ve got verbiage, people, and I’m not afraid to use it.
I started this book (not to be confused with the other three books which are [...]

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na? no.

November 8, 2008 – 11:42 pm

Someone should keep track of all my NaNoWriMo puns. Seriously. It would waste a good five minutes and give you something to do on a Saturday night which does not involve miserably hacking up bits of lung, which is what I’m doing. Oh, I know, waaaah. (Note to those who haven’t noticed yet: I get [...]

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NaNo NaNo

October 31, 2008 – 11:03 pm

Happy NaNoWriMo, everyone! Yes, I’m doing it again this year. This is because I am a crazy person.
I’m ridiculously excited. I’ve got all my notes bookmarked, copied into Scrivener, or saved. I’ve got a reference book lurking just to the right of my bed (it’s a psychological thriller, this year’s novel, which is an [...]

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and how might you be?

May 23, 2008 – 12:04 pm

You know, I was going to post something substantive and clever, but then I realized that I left the diapers at home. The office is now somewhat…odoriferous. Thusly, I leave you with these three things:
1. I posted a new video rant – scroll down if you’re on my site, or go see it on Viddler, [...]

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these words don’t write themselves

January 28, 2008 – 11:55 am

Taking a break from the novel, seeing as I’m premenstrual and liable to begin using the delete key in a decidedly unhelpful manner. A long time ago I figured out that my creativity is cyclical, and trying to force it along is always, always a huge mistake.
Besides, I’ve got work projects [...]

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classic creme cookies

January 25, 2008 – 10:15 pm

You know, I don’t like Oreos much, but these Back to Nature Classic Creme cookies? Dude, they are the bomb. Not So says they taste insufficiently Oreo-like, but I love them with the heat of a thousand suns.
I am eating some right now. In case you were wondering where that came from.
In other news, [...]

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