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Now that 2011 is almost entirely behind us, everyone is thinking ahead to 2012. The great unknown is exciting! YES, a fresh start! But it’s a little scary at the same time. I used to make the same new year’s resolutions every year. You know: eating better, exercising daily, losing weight, writing more, reading a… Read More Stop Flailing and Fighting and Go With the Flow
Another new year is about to dawn and I’m all “Whoa there, Silver, what happened to 2011?” It seems like it went by in a flash, and there have been times in the past three months when I felt frustrated that I wasn’t writing as much as I ought to be. I mean, hello. I… Read More It’s not having what you want, it’s wanting what you’ve got
I don’t know about you, but I love the beginning of a new story–when every sentence is a discovery and even though you have an idea how it ends, you have no real clue how exactly you’re going to get from point A to point B. And for this new project of mine, it is… Read More The Super Sekrit Projekt Has Begun!!
August was SUCH a busy month. I did not get much writing done in August. *sad face* But I did get a lot done internally. Have you ever noticed how things usually work like that? I noticed back in early August that this current round of rewrites was not going as smoothly as I’d imagined,… Read More Hello Long Weekend!
What I have to say today is not going to be witty. It may not be popular. It may even make some people I know and care about a little mad. But because of what I see every day where I work, I feel very strongly about it–strong enough that I’m willing to cause some… Read More Children and Social Media: Be smart! Say NOT YET!
So I am working again–or still–on rewrites. (I must admit I’m not sure anymore.) It is definitely getting to that point where if I have to rehash this scene one more time, I’m going to gouge my eyeballs out. And yet, I know with 100% certainty that I will have to revisit every scene in… Read More Wanting to Gouge My Eyeballs Out…Yes, and Other Cheery Things!!