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Ready to Write Again

I usually take a “break” from writing after finishing a big project. I’m currently in my break phase from the completion of the second draft of my young adult novel, which I finished about a month ago. When I told a man in my writers group about my break,

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April Poem #10

This train is bound for death But sometimes it happens before we get there. Women hang from the ceiling Long hair wrapped around the beams. Water still in the bathtub Where she slipped beneath her blanket And fell asleep. Red paint matches red hearts matches red We all know what

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April Poem #8

I’m learning something about poetry that I should have known a long time ago. Revision is the key. In the past, I’ve been the type to just sort of vomit up poems and leave them lying there, sometimes vaguely interesting but also usually a little putrid. My results

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National Poetry Writing Month: Poem #7

It’s highly unlikely I’ll get 30 poems out of this month, but 7 is still more than I write in most months! Sometimes I only wish To plant my heart In the soil of my garden Let its roots stretch long and low and deep. I once tried

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April is a Good Month for Writing

For example, today I’ve already written four poems and two blog posts, including my Young Adult Catholics one (this is my third blog post, and I think I’ll write a four before I turn in for the night). I did finish my novel last week, with much trepidation,

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Science Fiction Writers and Light Bulbs

From a writing buddy: How many science fiction writers does it take to change a light bulb? Two, but it’s actually the same person doing it. He went back in time and met himself in the doorway and then the first one sat on the other one’s shoulder

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Finisher's Momentum

For me, there are two places in the writing of a novel where I feel true momentum. The first one is at the beginning–when the idea is still shiny and new, and every trip back to the story is a new adventure, and I feel absolutely certain that this

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Another Niche Opportunity

I just came across this Call for Essays for a book about being single and Catholic. The deadline is April 30, which is very close, but the essay length is 500 words or less. Something that could be whipped up in a hurry and still adequately revised in 6 weeks

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April . . . is that you?

A few days ago, I got an email from Chris Baty, my not-s0-secret writerly crush and creator of NaNoWriMo. The email was a reminder that ScriptFrenzy, a challenge similar to NaNoWriMo that produces a 100-page script for a movie, play, or graphic novel, starts in April. This reminded me that,

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One month between posts, but I'm still kicking!

I’m embarrassed not to have written here for a month, but I’m not embarrassed about my writing overall these days. It’s going well — that is to say, I’m doing it consistently. Most of my words these days go into my YA novel, which is nearing it’

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The Best YA Books You Haven't Read

Here it is, the spectacular January 21st project celebrating unsung YA books! Special thanks to Yannabe for this initiative. As per her suggestion, I’ve used my LibraryThing account to hone in on which books are underappreciated. The following are books that I gave a four or five star rating

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Yannabe Super Secret Blog Project

Young adult literature enthusiast and blogger, Yannabe, is hosting a blogging event — post about the “five best YA books you’ve never read.” The purpose is to give some much needed kudos to the wealth of brilliant YA books out there that don’t get a lot of sensationalized hype

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Vote for Meeee!

Preditors and Editors has their anthology readers poll up until January 14. If you don’t see your favoritest anthology on the list there, vote for mine: Queer Dimensions! And while we’re on the subject, QD is currently taking submissions for Queer Light, an anthology of stories featuring queer

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Writing Resolutions!

A New Year is here once more, which brings new writing resolutions. This year’s goal is modest, but one I think will sufficiently challenge and satisfy me. I want to have my YA novel polished enough for submission by this time next year. I’m almost done with the

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Snowstorms = reading time and musings on short stories

Despite waiting on the edge of my seat for it, I failed to announce its arrival here as I’d intended. While I was gone in Europe last month, my contributor copy of Queer Dimensions finally arrived. It wasn’t until I had it in my hands (without paying for

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Novel, I Believe in You

This email from Chris Baty, founder of NaNoWriMo, was so cute that I just had to share: Dear Writer, I ran into your 2009 NaNoWriMo novel yesterday, and it said that you two are currently “taking a break.” I offered my condolences and mentioned that I’d probably be seeing

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My Solstice Resolution

I’m making my resolution a little early this year, because I’m in need of discipline. New Year’s resolutions, like many holiday traditions, can be traced back to early Solstice celebrations, which were a time to “plant the seeds” of intention for future fruit. I’m usually very

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Confession: Good for the Soul

Growing up Catholic, I certainly learned the value of a good confession. I’m invoking that power right now. My confession is this: I haven’t written in over a month. * Not a single blog post (I keep three blogs and contribute to two others) * Not a single scene on

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Happy Anniversary, LL Word

Well, today is the exact one-year anniversary of this blog; I began it on November 3, 2008. At that time, I was only a few days into my life as a full-time freelancer, full of questions and fear and enthusiasm. That first month, I definitely bit off a little more

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My Halloween Costume

As promised, here is a photo of me in my Halloween costume — I went as Little Red Riding Hood, one of my favorite figures in Fairy Tale lore. Although I’ve loved fairy tales since forever, this is the first time I’ve actually dressed as a Fairy Tale character.

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Follow-up Friday Came Early

I didn’t do much following up today because a) I did a lot of following up yesterday and b) I pulled another all-nighter last night (more about that later). Currently, I’ve been exploring some options for part-time jobs that would provide steady income and still allow me the

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Why do we write?

The October 2009 issue of The Writer has a short feature reflecting upon how many great writers have described the writing process as tortuous. George Orwell is quoted as referring to writing as, “a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.” When I was in college,

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My Catholic Writing Gigs

Just uploaded my latest post to the Young Adult Catholics blog. Also, received another print byline this week when the most recent issue of Call To Action’s ChurchWatch publication arrived, with my article about the aforementioned blog on page 7:

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Short Story Epiphany

Well, it’s official–or at least as official as some notes jotted down on paper: I’m going to write another short story. This after my epiphany of realizing that not everything needs to be a novel. This may seem obvious, but it wasn’t to me. I think

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Follow-up Friday

I missed the boat on last week’s Follow-up Friday due to pulling an all-nighter on Thursday and using the remaining time after I woke up on Friday to prepare for the arrival of houseguests. You could say I finally cleared the “follow-up” list on putting the house in order,