Single Parent Diary – Absolute Authority

The greatest thing about being a single parent is the absolute authority. There is no one to share the decision making with. There is no one to offer their opinions of how something should, or should not be accomplished.
No… instead I have four. Four unique and willful minds that ultimately feel they have an equal [...]

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Writing Challenge, day 1.

After this post, I’ll be updating weekly on Saturday…
 
Since I decided the challenge midway through yesterday I’m trying not to feel guilty about not reaching my 3250 word count goal. With the help of Write or Die, I was able to reach a respectable 2100 words.
With that I finished off chapter four of In Death’s [...]

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Timed Writing.

Andrea is a fountain of good ideas, I’m so glad we’re friends. This blog is in her honor, because it gave me a wonderful idea. It’s time to put my money where my mouth is. A member of the Internet Writing Workshop whose name is Rick has the best signature I’ve ever seen. It says [...]

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Write with childlike wonderment.

Yesterday I experienced something that I can’t recall ever doing before. I went to the circus. The whole experience was something that I’ll cherish forever. Watching the faces of my sons light up when the women twirled, the clowns danced and the men bounced on the tightrope, made it a profound experience. Having my four [...]

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Publishers, Editors, Agents… oh my!!

I don’t think I ever truly realized the depth of research that had to be done *after* the book was written. I’ve made and developed a network of supportive people with a great deal of advice to offer on any aspect of publication. The problem with that is the conflicting advice. It seems everyone has [...]

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I can too!

It seems as though everyone is writing a book these days. Former President George W Bush thinks that people want to know about his decision making processes. Brett Michaels, you know that rock singer and horrid reality show guy, yes, him. He is going to write about his time with Poison (When he was relevant). [...]

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Impatiently learning to be patient.

My book is done, it’s book one of a tentative series I called the Divine Ones. The Divine Ones are six Goddess’s who have children that must pass three Trials of Humanity to live as a deity among human mortals. The book I just finished took me six long months to write. To some of [...]

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The ability to waste time.

write or die, nanowrimo, facebook, myspace, twitter, kristy, bock, time management, waste time, author, writer,

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Magazines, shmagazines.

I’ll admit to being young enough to claim the internet era as my own. Just yesterday, I was asked about reading magazines as a means to find out information for new books.
Wait… What? You can find book information from magazines? People do that? What on earth for, when the Internet is at your fingertips. And [...]

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