Category: life as an author
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Foggy Memories…
We have been seeing a little mist or fog lately, creating a slightly Victorian ambience. Sometimes it is so thick, we can’t see across the road! So when it happened again last night, I staggered outside with my phone to record the moment. I did this, mainly because I have been having a lot of…
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A Friday Special…
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Anita wrote this poem long after she wrote Scarlet Ribbon, but I awoke this morning with it on my mind… Where do you go when you’re in a coma? A car loses control and mows Maggie down in the street, changing her life forever. She never liked her life, but when she ends up in…
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Sharing the Load…
Sharing the theme for my latest story with my favorite character, Detective David Snow, seemed like a brilliant idea at the time. I thought it would help both of us to cope and survive our current struggles. Maybe that was a little too optimistic, for I find that both of us are struggling worse than…
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Sleep of the dead…
At least, that’s what it felt like! The new medication (and all its promises) arrived early last week, and I grabbed it with both hands, eager for the relief it promised. Almost immediately, an extreme tiredness moved in and I found myself sleeping for almost 24/7. Thinking this was just the initial settling in, I…
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How do you cope with overwhelm?
I found myself in a bit of a quandary yesterday. Everywhere I looked, there were things piling up. Things that will need to be sorted, fixed, or amended as soon as humanly possible. I tried my very best to keep my cool, but the more I tried, the harder it became. At one point, I…
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Monday Mysteries…
This strange, mysterious image caught my attention, mainly because I find myself floundering around a lot in the dark these days. I am doing the best I can with just one eye, but it’s not easy. Luckily, it doesn’t seem to affect the writing, which is a blessing. You can barely see that it has…
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Honesty…
At the beginning of this year, I had already begun to write my latest story. It had been on my mind for a while, and in my head at least, I had the bones of it already in place. That’s when everything started to conspire against me. Pain, paralysis and much confusion landed, and this…
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Becoming a Writer…
I read an article the other day about how writers limit themselves to writing a best seller. I thought this was an odd thing to say, for that’s what we all want, isn’t it? As the writer explained, we don’t learn any other skills that way. “Successful authors practice.” Most of us read other books…
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An Afternoon with Jaye…
I mentioned Scrivener the other day, and that must have triggered something in my brain. MS Word was still playing silly buggers, they have changed everything, making it very difficult to do anything. I have tried to learn Scrivener in the past, and although the basics were easy, I never managed to become adept. I…