I know. That’s a weird title. It was “Deep is Painful” but I couldn’t find an appropriate picture that wasn’t also creepy. It might be slightly creepy with this painting actually… Anyway, so this is another revision week. If you missed last week’s post on cutting words–that’s what I’m doing still and you should go check that out and […]

Woooooooo! Final night of Full Moon Weekend!!! Then, you’re all cut off until… Dang it! I should just bookmark the full moon site already. *goes to check* July 19th will be the next Full Moon Weekend if I do this again. (Technically the full moon isn’t until the 22nd, so I’ll be cheating. Bwahahaha!) So, what do you think? Full […]

Okay, here is night two of FULL MOON WEEKEND!!! WOOOOOOOOO! Are you as excited as I am? You should be. Well, maybe.  Leave me comments if you want another Full Moon Weekend in July. This is very much an experiment. Previous Parts: I II III   The Cold and Lovely Moon IV   I coughed again as I tried to […]

So, I’m posting three parts this weekend as part of a full moon weekend–partly because I didn’t want it to take so long to get through the entire story but, also, this part ends on a bit of a pissy note. *shrugs* We’ll see how this goes. This whole thing feels like an experiment, so if this is a big […]

  I’m working on a revision–which is to say I’m a breathing, working writer. Revision is the other side of writing.  I spend more time revising than actually writing. Something always needs revision and, if you’re prolific, maybe several things need revision all at once. As I’ve grown as a writer, I’ve started to notice words that show up for […]

Once upon a time, I was working on this story set in the South, and I got really into studying accents and slang–including watching Youtube videos of people with accents, and I ran across this phrase a few times–including in a video–“sweet Pete!” and it just struck me as awesomely colloquial and something a guy could pull off with enough charm.   […]

  Last night, I taught a sketching class to a few girls…or I tried to anyway. (I’m mostly self-taught.)  And I took this unfinished self-portrait to show them. This is one of the last paintings I worked on before I set my paintbrushes aside to work on writing. And I think about it a lot. I want to finish it, […]

So, this is one of my favorite stories–and a first person short.       The Impossible Apprentice   My parents had decided that I should be apprenticed to the brightest and best of the up-and-coming sorcerers when I’d revealed my aptitude. I was the first in the last three generations with even enough ability to move a thimble. Unlike […]

So, this isn’t going to be about writing–not in so many words, but I’m really trying to help the world see OCD in a different light, and there isn’t a moment of my day that isn’t impacted by having OCD. There isn’t a word I write that isn’t influenced by my OCD. I will have books/novellas out eventually that will […]

  So, this has come up in my mind a bit lately as I’ve wanted to sub or I’ve changed things to fit submission guidelines. And I’m staring down a manuscript that I’ll need to figure out how I want to handle the POV. With Adult Romance, it’s customary for there to be a few unstated or sometimes stated guidelines: […]