Category: …the writing life…
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Commitment, The Number 8, and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity…
A novel, the first draft of which I wrote 8 years ago, has come together. Wow! It hit me like a ton of bricks. I’m so excited and obsessed with this revision, like with none other. It’s such a wonderful feeling to have something that you’ve been holding, and for such a long time, on…
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Reading Goals, Anne Perry, and What Sits at the Heart of Every Story…
My reading goals for this year are to read and study as many as possible of the novels in mystery writer, Anne Perry‘s, William Monk series. After reading, “The Face of a Stranger” I have become totally engrossed in not only Monk’s struggle to regain his memory as he works to solve murders that take…
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The Quiet That Descended…
A quiet descended somewhere between the last hours of Christmas Eve and 12 am Christmas morn. My husband with two of our children was away at midnight Mass. Our middle had been home with me preparing the early Christmas meal. We always eat our Christmas meal in the wee hours of the morn after the…
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Stories, Technology, and Loving Husbands…
For Christmas my husband gave me the Mac Version of Dictate. Data is a program that allows you to type on your computer through voice activation. In short, you speak into the receiver and the computer types what you say. He tells me that the program has to become familiar with our voice, which requires…
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Sick With a Cold…
I’ve been sick the last five days with a cold. It’s been hard to write. And so I haven’t. I also feel sicker, worse, for not writing. It’s always difficult for me to give up my writing, even when it’s temporary and I know I need to rest.
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Why I Write…And When I Don’t…
I think the hardest thing about writing is staying with it. Yep, staying with it. The words, the phrases, the sentences, the paragraphs. It’s all in there–the writing. [More…] But to write you have to stay with it from the single letter to the period at the end of the sentence that concludes the last…