Archived Posts from: May, 2005

My Spoiled Inner Child

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I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to focus on making a living from my own writing. Duh, R.
I’ve always been a procrastinator, but it seems to be increasingly worse when I’m working on something I don’t have an ownership in. For a long time, I just wanted to make a living as a [...]

Writerly Questions

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“Where else can you post, I need to blow up a car. Can you help?” This was the ending sentence on one of my email digests this morning, which made me laugh. It’s a list run by former law enforcement professionals for crime writers. They help us work out the details, running that balance between [...]

A Good Day to Write

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After my late night prowl-fest through the public library and a lot of LA blogs, I woke a little bleary-eyed. Combined with some truly disturbing dreams, the day started out confusing. The best thing I can says is that my food intake has been relatively healthy. So far. I do plan to order Chinese for [...]

Insomniacs unite…

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Strange things happen when you’re up at 2am. The neighbors make noises you don’t usually hear, and so does my kid. She’s taken to whacking one of her fiber optic pieces in the middle of the night, probably the result of a small seizure. But the result sounds like someone’s pecking on the window–an effect [...]

A Holiday Reflection

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Getting a late start, which I suppose is appropriate for a Saturday. Maybe. The night owl in me doesn’t care for working too much before 10am anyway. I always try to do mindless, catch-up stuff before then.
I have noticed that being a freelancer often means losing track of days. Saturday, that glorious day off for [...]

Flummoxing Friday

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Okay, so maybe my goal of journaling here every day isn’t necessarily a good one. I woke up this morning with my head buzzing about the next chapter in Murder, and the selections from Secrets that I need to finish this morning. I also re-injured my ankle last night, so long stretches at the computer [...]

Research and Perception

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I had an intriguing conversation yesterday with an artist friend, after she found out I was writing a murder mystery. At least, that’s where it started. I had read her a section of the book, and she asked about my knowledge of crime scenes, etc.
Part of that is simple research. Writers, especially fiction writers, read [...]

With deadline looming…

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Summer hours are already kicking in with Rach and me, even though she’s only been out of school for a day and a half. Left to her own devices, she naturally seem to sleep between midnight and 8am. Clocks are required to shift that around. Last night she was tired, but still fussed until midnight. [...]

A New Day

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With Apologies…

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Yeah, I’m still a novice at this. I’ve never been much of a blogger, although I’ve read other folks’ work. Since I hadn’t really had time to do one of my own, this has set empty for more than a year, pretty much ignored by me.
Until today, when a friend informed me that the blog [...]