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Category Archives: Merry-Go-Round Blog Tour
The latest TBR pile
It’s always hard to figure out what I should include when someone asks me what’s in my TBR pile. I’ve just put a hold request on Tobias Buckell’s Arctic Rising at the library. Ditto The Red Chamber by Pauline Chen … Continue reading
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Early writing dreams
I can remember a time when I was not a writer. In first and second grade, I wrote sentences for my spelling words, and that was about it. (I remember my mom telling me at the time that all of … Continue reading
In the balance
Balance — a topic near and dear not just to every writer’s heart, or anyone who has a day job and a creative pursuit, or any person with a family and a job and interests of her own — well, … Continue reading
Deadlines and me
In my freelance work, deadlines are a fact of life. Every project comes with one, and I know exactly how much time I have to complete the work. For that reason, I’ve always liked themed anthologies and contests: I know … Continue reading
Under the influence
(If you’re here for the A to Z Challenge, my post for “B” is just below this on my blog (B is for Black God’s War). Or you can check out my post from yesterday, A is for Abercrombie, if … Continue reading
My not-so-little room
I do most of my writing at the computer — currently, the family computer, which is positioned in the living room so I can look out the front window to rest my eyes if need be. I do a lot … Continue reading
Procrastination fears me . . . or not
Procrastination and I are old friends. The other day, for example, I was contemplating pushing aside the novel I was working on editing to go bake chocolate chip cookies. I even went so far as to mention it on Facebook. … Continue reading
An Ideal Reader
I like to make things for people, which you might realize if you’ve been following this blog for a while. There’s the quilt I’m working on for my son (and the quilt I gave to my niece a couple of … Continue reading
X, Yarbro, Yelinek, Yolen
Here we are at the penultimate post in this series. I looked, but I couldn’t find any speculative fiction writers whose names started with X, and very few writers at all. So X clearly doesn’t mark the spot here. Perhaps … Continue reading
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Holidays
The following short story exists solely because the Merry-Go-Round Blog Tour topic this month is a writing prompt. Writing prompts mean stories, not posts, at least for me. So don’t fret if you don’t recognize the holiday, or if your … Continue reading