jadana
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Thanks to a colleague’s suggestion, this year I took the NaNoWriMo plunge. With less than a month to fashion the concept of a novel, I signed up, drank the koolaid, and jumped off the cliff. I’ve been writing fiction since grade school, but only in November 2013 did I really start to think of myself […]
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In this short video clip, Ira Glass talks about the craft of writing and how all writers struggle early on with the creative process. He describes how we have great taste, so when what we write doesn’t measure up to what we like, we get frustrated. The mark of a true writer is the one […]
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Photos from a couple days sightseeing in Vancouver, Canada. Images are from Chinatown and Gastown, as well as the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden and the Vancouver Aquarium and Stanley Park.
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Yesterday I participated in BlogathonATX 2013, a day-long event in Austin, TX bringing bloggers together for writing, inspiration, site critiques, learning, conversations… and lots of coffee drinking and snacking. It’s a great day to hang out with old friends and make new ones, fix that blog that’s been stashed away in the basement, and clear […]
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A short story about a man who can ‘fix’ other people’s dreams.
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After heavy rains on Friday, Nimue and I decided to check out Austin’s Bull Creek. It was a gorgeous, perfect autumn day, cool with not a cloud in the sky. There’s nothing quite like splashing around in a creek with a puppy! This may have been her first chance to go swimming, and she loved […]
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A couple of weeks ago a new puppy joined my little family. It started so innocently on Facebook. A couple of weeks ago I was browsing my neighborhood FB group, when I saw that Diana, a local dog foster (and great wedding photographer!), posted photos of the cutest puppy ever. My previous dog, an awesome […]