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Epic fail? Not quite….love restored, sort of

We set a goal of 2,000 words per week. Epic fail. I have 962, I don’t know what Clark has because he is writing it by hand. Not quite what I had mapped out in my writing manifesto last week, but something unexpected happened in between my bouts of obsessive planning. Picture a rough day…

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The roadmap to Blood and Whiskey

When we wrote The Cowboy and the Vampire, our lives were in a different place — I was a freelance writer working from a home office and Clark’s job was part-time. Our daughter was safely ensconced in middle school and income and expenses were more or less in balance. I was rigid about my writing…

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Gearing up for the sequel..and divorce?

We are getting ready to write the sequel and soon will be going into creative hyperdrive. I intend to chronicle the entire process of how we write together… how do we actually get to a finished book and what’s the effect on our relationship? I will also reflect on how writing this new book differs…

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Semi-colons and togetherness

It’s true what they say about us. We  argue about punctuation. I swear. His overuse of the semi-colon makes me nuts. It ruins the flow of a good sentence, and no, Clark, that is not a run on sentence. Run on sentences are something that only people whose writing peaked in grade school still talk…

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