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Writing Accountability Post # 20: Time to regroup
Post number twenty, and it's pretty darn clear that I need to revise my organizing system. Oh, it worked pretty well for three months, but the last…
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A reflection on equine friendships
One thing that's come about during my now eighteen years with the same horse has been an awareness that yes, she has an emotional life. As herd animals…
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Writing Accountability Post #19--Back to the Forest
Seasonal shifts come quickly. This year's late spring has had several effects on things, including how quickly we get back into the forest to cut…
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Sometimes you don't see the block until you're past it
It's the season for lilacs, so have some lilacs again. My latest picking (recovered from DH's pruning of low-lying branches) is not quite ready to…
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Writing Accountability Post #18--When Everything Falls Apart
So you may have noticed there wasn't a writing accountability post last week. That's because life happens sometimes. I'd been fighting a low-level IBS…
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Plodding along in the writer life
Today, I really needed to open up Wyoming Summer, Mary O’Hara’s somewhat fictional account of the real-life ranch in My Friend Flicka, to read this…
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Writing Accountability Post #17
Note: for new readers, I’m writing a weekly accountability post for my fiction projects. Otherwise, this newsletter is pretty much about writing but on…
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