It's that time again -- time to start thinking about Christmas ( Read more... )

I have booked a couple of professional psychic readings for my birthday celebration. Going to get a palm and tarot reading at Earth Odyssey for the afternoon of my birthday. The reader says your personal New Year doesn't begin in January, but on your birthdate, so that should work out well for the reading ( Read more... )

How in the world did it get to be nearly December already ( Read more... )

The HOA has decided to have our roads repaved. Man, they really mean re-paved!

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Finally figured out how to distribute my free short story for my (future) email subscribers. If you're interested, just go to the website and click on the "I want freebies" page -- you'll then be directed to a website where you can enter your email and download a copy of the story (in just about any format, too ( Read more... )

So far the content writing gig is going well. I've got a couple of regulars. One wants two 4K word articles and a batch of emails every month and the other is after 1500 word articles about various topics for his blog. Neither is paying huge amounts, but it's regular money for fairly easy work so I'm not complaining. On the plus side, I'm learning ( Read more... )

I have shot one of my scientists ... I debated whether or not he should be murdered, but decided shot and out of action would do as well. I'm starting Chapter 41 which I hope is the last chapter ...

This morning's Summer Festival of Writing was all about Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them. Stuff like using the agent's actual name when sending a ( Read more... )

The Summer Festival of Writing is underway. I've enjoyed the two webinars I attended. The mini-course I wanted to see yesterday was postponed due to illness but they're promising a reschedule. Today we had a Q&A with two agents from Folio Literary Agency in New York. Their opinion is that YA Dystopian is on the way out ( Read more... )

So the car chase went well according to my beta reader. Unfortunately now my POV character now must deal with a leg cast for the next few weeks, which is going to interfere with their studio time.


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Chapter 1 has passed the beta reader test and been approved by the roommate as well.

I finished the car chase/fight scene and passed those chapters to the beta reader as well. We'll see how close I am to the final plot twist. I think it's pretty close but there are a few loose ends that need tying up first, so ...