zomygod it’s over

So I did it. Blogged every day for a full month. Pretty much. What did I learn? I can really whip out some make-do stuff when necessary. Just like in high school. Blogging at night suits me better–want to save my best brain cells for my WIP. Challenges are fun. My choicest blog posts happen [...]

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i am become ya

CONFESSION: I’ve started maybe a half-dozen posts since the beginning of the year, and haven’t finished any of them. The importance of what I had to say fizzled out in the face of walk-around-life ANGST and DRAMA. Calm down. We are all healthy and free on bond. Oh, fine. There were no incidents of any [...]

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all my friends went to scbwi-la, and all i got was this lousy…

…urge to throw empty inkjet cartridges at them and critique the hell out of their WIPs, without sandwiching in any praise. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Don’t think I won’t. A woman desperate enough to perform cosmetic dental surgery on dogs is desperate enough to do anything. It was bad enough enduring tweets LIVE from the conference, but NOW, [...]

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dear blog…

It’s not that I don’t love you all. I just have a hard time keeping a blog schedule. Because if I have a kid with a résumé that needs tweaking or a speech that needs punching up, that’s going to come first. Broken heart? That comes first. Two-week visit from a kid I haven’t seen [...]

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wondering why i didn’t post last week?

Bottled Lightning is home. Freckles McYoungest has finished her sophomore year. I try desperately to stick to my writing schedule. This is what happens. So yeah. Motherhood.

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what jung has to say on jung

My Twitter faux-nemesis, Mike Jung, posted a blog about the difference between his virtual-temperament and walking-around-self.  Writers are encouraged to have a large on-line presence these days, and the bigger the personality, the better. You could say that Mike projects a rather *ahem* large personality on Twitter. Yet he claims that if you meet him [...]

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hearing your own voice

It took me a while to find my voice.  In writing, I mean.  Let’s not go all melodramatic.  People hate that. I’m in the gooey middle of an experiment called Tweet Mystery of Death.  It’s a 6-week “play” of sorts on Twitter.  A critique buddy of mine identified the character I play without my telling [...]

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The Time has Come, the Walrus Said…

…to jump into the blogging world.  Since I am among the tech-challenged, bear with me while I experiment and make lots and lots of mistakes. I wonder how many people recognize where the title of this post comes from.  Does anyone read Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking-Glass anymore?  Perhaps the craziness of [...]

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