It’s Monday. How did this happen? Most of the renovation is over. We have some shelves that need to be put up, and the front of the house needs stucco repaired and a new coat of paint, but mostly we are done. I’m waiting for it to sink in, so I can exit the crisis
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Chapter 20 Part 2
Today was the first day this week it was quiet and people were not trying to kill themselves with scaffolding. Also I got some funky bloodwork results, and it was causing a bit of anxiety. Long story short, this whole scene was written today. We literally just finished, so it is truly the first draft.
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Pop!
Would you rewrite parts of the first KD books if they get picked up for tv adaptations before they get turned into scripts? This crops up a lot, so I decided to burst that bubble. Amount of influence you have as a writer when you work is optioned for film or tv: Zero. Zero. None.
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The Deer in Blue
Our house has finally been repainted. It looks lovely. It was a lot of lost productivity, but it couldn’t be helped and the final result is great. Also our GC gave us an inconvenience discount. One of the big parts of the renovation for us was getting a new mural in the dining room. The
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The Craft Room Saga
It’s hot here in Texas. The upstairs AC has been out for a week. The replacement coil arrived Friday, but was defective. AC coils are sealed containing a bit of nitrogen. When the seal is broken, they make a whoosh sound as nitrogen escapes, which let’s you know the coil is good. There was no
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Monday PSA: I don’t have a mother.
I had my annual mammogram this morning. My mother died of breast cancer. She had “a bruise on her breast that wouldn’t heal,” and she didn’t go to the gynecologist. In fact, she hadn’t gone since she had given birth to my brother, which at that point was over 20 years. I don’t even know
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Chapter 20 Part 1
When we last left the inn, we learned that Kosandion’s former lover betrayed him. Oh Kosandion. So considerate, so handsome, so lonely. If only he had someone to comfort his troubled heart. Now Orata, his PR chief, is trying to put out that fire. But breakfasts do get cold, and even the innkeepers have to
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House Today
Chapter 19, 2 and 3
Surprise! The pirate attack has been thwarted by our brave heroes, and while they were preparing for bed, Caldenia talked one of her handlers into letting her into the otrokar quarters. Dina went to retrieve her and on the way back through the gardens, Her Grace convinced her that the news of the pirate attack
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Cranky Author is Cranky
Sometimes you wake up on the wrong side of the bed. That’s me today. I don’t want to work. I just looked at our bank account for motivation, and let me tell you, that cleared that fantasy real fast, heh. I don’t want to clean. I don’t want to cook. I don’t want to put
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Chapter 19 Part 1
We planned on giving you a bigger section, because we thought you might perish from suspense, but we still have construction going on. We will try to give you either a bigger section or two posts next week, so try to hold on until then. When we last left our fearsome innkeeper duo (I’m having
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Covers and Genre
A while ago we’ve done a Genre by Cover Quiz, where we showed you covers and had you guess the genre. I was looking on Amazon for unrelated reasons, trying to find something for Mod R, and stumbled on this. To be clear: THIS IS NOT A BOOK RECOMMENDATION. I have not read any of
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