Category: NATURE/SEASONS
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Fernando, for the Win!
Nature has a quiet way of speaking to us. A lot of the time, the noise of people and modern life drowns out the sounds of Earth, but we can all seek what we need to hear, no matter where we are. From top to bottom, the water oak outside my window is a home…
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Dormant to Thriving
Last spring I started my fern watching journey. Fascinated by the way a little fern—and assorted mosses—clung to the rough bark of the water oaks in my backyard, I snapped a few pictures every now and then and compared the different stages of the fern to my creative life. This time around, I think the…
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FORTITUDE Saw Me Through
Another round of edits on FORTITUDE is complete and the story is on its way to the next round of beta readers. After these tweaks, it sits at over 67,500 words and has 310 double spaced pages. It’s an inch and a half thick—my largest story to date! I feel a bit like Charlotte, wondering…
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Highs and Lows
A writing life is full of its own highs and lows and this week, though it’s just beginning, has both. How do I know? I’ve already experienced the spectrum of emotions. Good news first: I passed twenty-five thousand words on the first draft of FORTITUDE. Most days I’m making myself write first thing in the…
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Nourish Your Goals
Did you catch my post earlier this month about ferns? I didn’t have to wait for the summer heat to test me or the fern. This past Sunday I had a minor freak-out about my writing goal—finishing the first draft of FORTITUDE—while I’m in my seventh month of waiting to hear back from publishers about…