Month: September 2012
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Free-Range Fiction: Tattoo Pairs
This is my piece in response to Chuck Wendig’s weekly challenge. This week’s “A Second Game of Aspects” pitted a list of sub-genre, setting, and element for our wily dice to choose for us. My roll garnered me: Ghost Story, Paris 1944, and Tattoos. I spent too many days researching and getting lost in the history of…
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It’s Just Story – Don’t Label It Anything Else
But, the bottom line is that most writers I know, including myself, just want to write what we write. We don’t want to fit into little boxes.
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Harvest Creations: Grilled Tomatillo Salsa
Here in the Pacific Northwest we’re having some awesome growing weather. Bumper crops of blackberries, blueberries, peppers, tomatoes — you name it. A very wet cool spring followed by sun, sun, sun. Urban farming has been good — so has wild harvesting: plums, apples, apricots, hawthorne berries. But the wild harvesting will be another post.…