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Great minds?

1060 words today. And I think I had a specific blog topic, but I’ve now forgotten. Blast! OH YEAH! In poking around the ol’ Internet, I came across the genre of ‘Urban Fantasy,’ which is apparently a kissing cousin to ‘Paranormal Romance,’ the defining feature being the centrality of the […]

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Welcome to Hell

Lilacs and sunflowers waved at the edges of my sight, framing a perfect, cheerful sky. I pushed up onto my elbows. I was on a slight rise, and the gorgeous expanse of purple and yellow stretched deep to the horizon. “Welcome to hell,” said someone. I swiveled on my butt. […]

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Two scenes, different stories

750 words today, wrote a scene in HUNTING MIDNIGHT. It was a rewrite of something that had started life as three exposition heavy paragraphs, so I quickened it with a lot more dialogue and think I solved the micro issue. The overall shape of the episode still threatens to bog […]

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One does not simply plug and play

Yup, once again in need of a better plotline. No words today, but a bunch of notes. I had hoped that the scenes I cut some weeks ago would be able to come back and be used, but they were part of a weaker story, and cannot simply be plug […]

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Snowflakes

I don’t think I’ll be writing much today. Still a little brain-hazy from board game drinking last night (and they wanna do a double header tonight and I have said I’ll go (it’s a lot of fun shut up)), tired, etc. I need some downtime, it feels. The weekend holds […]

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Goodwill

200 words. Had my regularly occurring board game night, which cut into some evening time. I’m writing this the day after so my memory’s a little hazy—oh yeah! Started putting more of MIDNIGHT onto my private queue on CC, as there’s been a few regular critters who seem to enjoy […]

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Streak snapped!

950 new words, in the fourth installment (technically third episode) of HUNTING MIDNIGHT! I enjoyed the way it evolved and flowed, despite ignoring my own instinct to spend some time on character sketching. That still needs to be done in order to help manage the arcs I need to deliver, […]

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Lame-o streak

It’s been an official week of no new words! Dang. I do feel like I’ve been tremendously productive on other fronts, it certainly was not a mopey, non-zero week. A lesson here is what happens when there’s no immediate in-progress project to work on. When I finished the last MIDNIGHT […]

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Glimmers

No words today either, spent the bulk of my writing time on examining the glimmer of another project, one that has some long odds but a decent payoff. It’s sill in its infancy and could shatter if I give it too much real world recognition, so I’ll continue to be […]

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Battle of the blurbs

No new words today, but that’s fine because I did a bunch of shipment related stuff and set the stage for the next installment in HUNTING MIDNIGHT. I’ve realized that I need a lot more character development for the coming pieces, so that’ll be a mission for the coming week. […]

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