Writing
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Fail to Plan, Plan to Fa…. Be Yourself
Sure, at the start of this blogging romance it was all exciting, fresh, and new. Oh and so much advice, so many people telling me what I should and shouldn’t do, backed with empirical evidence and flow charts and graphs, click meters and algorithms. Yes! I could commit to a social media plan with full responsibility – if you’re doing it, you’d better do it right dammit! Off I went to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and I blogged. Oh yeah, and among all that I was writing a novel. And Life happened; as it is wont to do… Learning to walk again makes you think about a lot important things. Things like foundations and forward momentum. My most…
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Time to Move on Description
“What the **** is that?” Nope, I’m not proud of my initial response to the picture prompt in my Facebook fiction writer’s group. I don’t usually attempt any of the challenge prompts; I much prefer to slave over my work-in-progress and bang my head on the desk. It must have been the whole end-of-year revelry vibe that made me think it was a good idea to STOP and look around. And it was a good idea; only I didn’t know that when the picture was released and those words fell from my mouth. And that’s where the story idea for “Time to Move” came from. What if someone didn’t know what that tower was? Who would be the kind…
