Category: Writing
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#SundayShare – From my current WIP, Under the Milky Way
As promised, here’s a snippet from Under the Milky Way. It’s unedited, so excuse any weirdness. đ âGus?â Gus blinkedâhis eyes were empty and lifeless at first, then something changed. The watery blue of his eyes darkened and then warmed. Her throat tightenedâwas it really him? Why had he not said he was coming home?…
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Brainstorming in Matera
Instead of spending Midsummer in Stockholm, I am in Matera, Italy brainstorming my next books with a great group of writers at the Locanda di San Martino. These amazing women have helped me figure out how to get past some road blocks that were keeping me from moving forward with my new WIP, Under the…
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A sprained ankle and other updates…
There’s a reason I no longer play sports and concentrate on writing: I have *zero* coordination. Today, while walking, I managed to sprain my ankle. I stepped on what looked like a pretty solid piece of pavement with a bit of gravel on it–turned out to be a pile of gravel–and my foot went in…
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Flash Fiction: Starry Night
Yesterday, Mel Bynum posted this image in the WRITE Now group on Facebook and challenged us to write a story. This is the flash fiction I came up with. Hope you like it. Every night she followed the path into the forest and didn’t stop until she was at the very spot where, on his…
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Black and white in love–or why I write about interracial relationships
In July it will be twenty years since I left the United States behind and embarked on an adventure in the name of love in Scandinavia. I only knew a handful of people here–the man I was in love with and his family. At the time, it never occurred to me that this was not…
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My NaNoWriMo 2014 novel soon disappearing from the site.
This is going to be the last week that the unedited version of Maybe Forever will be online. In the months since I finished Nanowrimo, I’ve made a lot of changes to the story, so the final version won’t be exactly the same. Anyway, enjoy these last few days with it. It may be offline…