Category: Writing
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Free-Range Fiction: I’ll Take Monday
If you’re here, you’re here because you are linking back from Chuck Wendig’s site and his Flash Fiction Challenge as of Feb. 6, 2015, The Four-Part Story (Part I). Okay, you might be here because you read my blog regularly. If so, thank you and keep checking back for the progress of this challenge, as it…
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Inkster Dispatch: She’s a hot mess, but there’s still good news
I have just spent the last 30 minutes searching for a notebook where I had done an idea exercise. I generated about 50 ideas for my blog to tackle this year. Can I find said notebook? Nope. I tore apart all the usual places and then some. I can’t find the notebook anywhere. This…
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My top 10 tips for surviving the freelance life
In a couple of weeks, I will have lived the full-time freelance writing life for three years. Three years. I don’t know where the time goes, seriously. I thought, therefore, I should probably share the things that I learned over the course of these years. Feast or Famine. Seriously, be prepared for times when you…
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Write Life: What it means to be an ABNA Quarter-Finalist
As my alter-ego Inkster reported to you all, I made the quarter finals of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award in the Young Adult category, for my novel, WILDERNESS RIM. I was excited, of course. Then I was sitting around with my writing pals the other day and they were all congratulating me and one…
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THE PILLOW THAT WOULD GO EVERYWHERE: An essay on survival
When I was in the service, my first set of orders sent me to a unit in Frankfurt, Germany. My Army job, a photojournalist, meant that I wasn’t necessarily going to spend a lot of time in Frankfurt. No, I didn’t. I got enough time there to make it count, and make some memories, but…