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Peer Pressure Writing Night and the Demonwich

Peer Pressure Writing Night is something I look forward to every week. A small group of us meet up Thursday nights at the River Point Panera and . . . well, we may not get a lot of writing done, … Continue reading

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CPGO: Step Four – Setting

At this point I’m diverging from BiaM and You Can Write a Novel. Both mention setting briefly. Smith goes as far to suggest treating settings like a character. Instead, I’m leaving these books at the wayside for now and concentrating … Continue reading

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Around the Interwebs

A couple of agent blogs have come to my attention in the last few days, and since I had commentary on both, I thought I’d mention them here. The first is by outstanding agent Nathan Bransford. This post was brought … Continue reading

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Writing What You Know

Once, I attended a panel at a World Science Fiction Convention where the writers were quite big names. They were all ladies, and while I won’t tell you who they were, they all had covers with Luis Royo artwork on … Continue reading

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What I thought would never happen – did.

When I was younger, I never babysat. I am the youngest of three children, and both of my parents are the eldest in their families, so I did not have the advantages of growing up by taking care of the … Continue reading

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