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Announcement...Testing
Hopefully you’ve received today’s blog in your email through SendFox. Let me know if you haven’t. Still working out glitches, but the plan to leave…
Jan 19
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One Year Ends, Another Begins
Well hello there. I haven’t written much on this blog of late, primarily because I’ve been wrestling with burnout and, for lack of a better word…
Jan 3
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One Year Ends, Another Begins
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December 2023
Substackers against Nazis
You know that old saying about how a bar becomes a Nazi bar? If they show up and you don’t kick them out, more show up, and sooner, that’s all you have…
Dec 14, 2023
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this is not an awards eligibility post
At some point when I was younger, I realized that I was never going to be a major award winner. Oh, I had the dreams. Don’t we all? Some of them were…
Dec 5, 2023
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The toxicity of the "just work harder" mentality in publishing, and Substack
With the rise of Notes on Substack I’ve also been seeing the rise of a certain type of writing advice essay that is, frankly, toxic. It tends to…
Dec 1, 2023
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October 2023
A minor rant on the sale of fiction rights
Normally I don’t feel the urge to respond to something posted elsewhere with a full post of my own. But one this morning in a lit mag blog has me…
Oct 14, 2023
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After three months...The Marker and Mocha update
Has it been three months since a certain bay Arab-ish gelding came into our lives? Well, yes, it has been. And while it's been a learning experience for…
Oct 12, 2023
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After three months...The Marker and Mocha update
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September 2023
Announcing the Goddess's Honor rerelease
As I prepare to write the Goddess's Vision series, one task that was on my mind was the rerelease of the first series set in that world, Goddess's…
Sep 28, 2023
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Writing Accountability Post #35
Well. Here we are again. Once more, it’s been a reasonably productive week. I got a client edit done, the new version of Pledges of Honor uploaded with…
Sep 18, 2023
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Marker training journal #4
Isn't that just a boopable nose? He certainly thinks so. The Boi keeps on making progress. Sometimes he surprises me because he picks some things up…
Sep 10, 2023
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Marker training journal #4
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Writing Accountability Post #34
Well, I'm starting to see the value of this exercise, something like...thirty-four weeks into it? Because this week is suddenly all about projects…
Sep 10, 2023
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Writing Accountability Post #33
Cranky internet today, darn it. When I look at what I got done this month it doesn't seem like much...and yet I know it is. I finished the outlines for…
Sep 4, 2023
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