In about two weeks, my daily life is going to change a bit. I’ve been home with my kids for the last eleven years, but last year my son went to all day kindergarten. For about three weeks, I tried to figure out what I ought to be doing with the six hours of solitude [...]
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On Approaching Change
Posted in empty nest, family, vegan, writing, writing and life on August 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The thing about having a daily word count goal…
Posted in AugNoWriMo, writing, writing and life on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
is that you have to keep pushing yourself to work at putting something down on paper/computer screen, even if you don’t feel like writing, even if you’ve had a crap-filled day, even if your head is a jumbled up mess because the kids are screaming and the dishwasher is running and you’d gotten the sunburn [...]
Help a girl out?
Posted in AugNoWriMo, nanowrimo, writing, writing and life on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, as a writer, I find that having goals helps me to actually sit down and write. A long term plan (like I have for my fiction blog- a post every Friday, rain or shine) will help me push through the moments of writer’s block, even if I’m finishing the week’s post on Friday morning [...]
Standardized Blurb Format for Freely Shared Online Fiction SBFFFSOF for short ;P
Posted in books, fiction, poetry, writing, writing and life on May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Been thinking about wordpress and how the tag specific pages work to draw the reader in…
See that almost sentence above? ^ It is about the length of the excerpt that the tag specific pages give for each post. Pretty short, huh? That’s what you get to try and entice the random reader in. Made me [...]
I think I may have lost the search terms lottery.
Posted in the search terms lottery, vegetarian, writing, writing and life on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Re: my last post. It is No. 8 on the google search “famous vegetarian sociopaths”. So freakishly cool.
Also on that same subject: How You Got Here.
Spain Calling (or my blog eats itself)
Posted in hispanic, race, racial issues, the search terms lottery, writing, writing and life on March 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So, on a scale of 1 to weird, I call this a search-engines-are-fraked-up. I’ve written before of how I am so vain that I go ahead and google search terms that come up in my blog stats, right? I’ve been amazed at how, despite the fact that I have very few hits on this blog [...]
On Being Not-So-Much Hispanic
Posted in hispanic, race, writing and life on February 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Race- ethnicity- is a weird subject- it makes people prickly, but it is not one I’m afraid to write about. I do, however, need a reason to write about it; otherwise I tend to let it fade into the background most of the time. A couple of small things have happened lately to make me [...]
New Year- New Organization
Posted in writing and life on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
1- The long December over, I’m planning to start writing in this a little more often. I have rearranged my online stuff, separating the personal stuff from the fiction. I also have a tiny thing I’m doing for one of the drive-by characters (The Groc of the Peat) in my serial Spirals that I’m going [...]
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What I’ve posted lately and where- Array March 28, 2009New Poem And I Will Sing for Your Father
- Lillia’s Tale March 11, 2009I have finished the first nine prompts in my new writing project, now titled “Lillia’s Tale”. They are short little things 100-400 words each, but they are a start. They are set in the same storyverse as Ari’s Tale. 1. Beginnings 2. Middles 3. Endings 4. Insides 5. Outsides 6. Hours 7. Days 8. Weeks [...]
- New Project and TOAF on Hiatus February 23, 2009Put Told On A Friday on hiatus and have begun a new writing project over here. Updates to my new and hopefully cathartic project will be included in my update feed here and my Twitter, too.
- Tootin’ my own horn. December 16, 2008Taking this time of year to draw attention to two of my older stories, both written last year around the holidays. The Hidden Properties of Fruitcake (1) (2) ~ An Epiphany Story The Yearlings ~ A New Years Story I really love both of these pieces and hope you do, too.
- Burgess Gulch (6) December 5, 2008Burgess Gulch (6) Genre:Sci-fi/Western Word Count:5,350 Rating:10+ Summary: Things around Burgess Gulch continue to get more and more perplexing. Author’s Note: This began as my 2006 Nanowrimo Novel. Previous Parts (1) (2) (3) (4) (5).
- Array March 28, 2009
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