From the monthly archives:

February 2002

Slush Pile Reader

28 February 2002

I came across an article written by a slush pile reader.
I read it, enjoyed it, found it somewhat amusing, and am lightened by it. I’m not a nut job, I can write, I don’t think I’m Mrs. Christ, and I have no intention of submitting to [...]

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Sex scenes for the prudes

26 February 2002

In the novel I’m currently working on, my main two characters have sex. You find out when the next chapter opens with her commenting on the scars on his butt.
I’m a prude. Couldn’t write a sex scene if my life depended on it. Don’t like reading [...]

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Nothing at all to do with writing. Honest!

25 February 2002

A comment was made on a writing list I belong to about how this person wasn’t sure there’s anyone left who isn’t somehow of mixed races.
My response?
I’m the exception!!!
My ancestry is Mennonite, which most of you [...]

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Writing without editing. Also known as Blitz-drafting.

24 February 2002

This was difficult for me, but I figured out a way to train myself to do it. It sounds hokey (I don’t know how to spell that word – never seen it in print before – but I think you all will probably know what I mean) but it worked.
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Master of the Whine

21 February 2002

I joined the BIW list too late to be a part of the BIM. Oh so sad.
For the BIW in March, I’ll be working on either Black Light or WEM Kids (later renamed to Children of the Dome)(that second one is really hooky, but I don’t [...]

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Placidia the novel – First Draft is DONE!!!!!

15 February 2002

I have a novel I’ve been working on and off for the last three or three and a half years, and this morning, I finished my first draft. (Laurie does the snoopy dance.) It was hard work. It was frustrating. I gave up on it three times for six months to [...]

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More on the Frozen North

13 February 2002

And of course I got a response about the ice highways.
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I think I saw a program on TV about using the iced-over rivers and bays as "Ice Highways". I was scared witless by the mere idea of these immensely brave drivers [...]

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My intro to BIW

13 February 2002

Animal, most notably raccoon, stories were going all over that group, so I had to share. And this was what I said:
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Tellulah was about three or four months old when I was diagnosed with apnea (I stop breathing in my sleep) [...]

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I found an excellent writing group

13 February 2002

I signed up with BIW in the last week or so, and as such, have not started either a BIW or BIM. But I have been completely and utterly inspired by the emails I’ve seen listing all the pages that have been written in a day or a week. It’s also [...]

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