My biggest ambition when I was in elementary school gym class was to walk the balance beam. The balance beam in question was part of an obstacle course. You climbed a set of stairs on a wooden structure with three twenty foot beams. You had an option of picking one that was eighteen inches, twenty-four […]
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I had a conversation with a friend the Thursday night. Since I’m planning on posting a review of one of her books soon, I asked her for the media kit. Her response was thanks. Then she offered, “When you get ready this summer, I’ll help you with your query letter.” I read that sentence and
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My friend Melissa has a new book coming out in June. Here’s a sneak peak at the cover of her newest novel, Battle Cry. BATTLE CRY by Melissa Snark A Victoria Storm novel #3 Loki’s Wolves series Genre: Paranormal/urban fantasy Coming in June 2014 * * * Add to your Goodreads Shelf “We meet Valkyrie
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I’ve listened to various podcasts for several years. I’m pretty fickle when it comes to listening. I’ll listen to one, then stop, then resume and maybe go back and hunt them down and listen. I’ll listen to them mostly when I’m working my day job. I do massive amounts of data entry, and it makes the
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I’ve been killing a lot of darlings lately. I first heard the phrase “kill your darlings” in a On Writing by Stephen King. He was quoting William Faulkner, who was paraphrasing a passage from Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch’s On the Art of Writing. It’s a quote that I hear often, and have struggled to grasp the full
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My New Year’s Resolutions for 2014 in regards to writing: Write more consistently every day I was able to do the 1,667 word count for NaNoWriMo. But I wrote nothing except some blog related content for the first week of December due to burnout. I won’t be able to maintain a NaNoWriMo pace, but I
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My name is Sheryl Hayes, and I battle with depression. I was diagnosed with clinical depression in my early twenties. I have struggled with managing it on and off ever since. I have been on anti-depressant medications, but I have not had to take them for the last ten years. I have both a family
Dear Beginning-of-December Sheryl, What a month it has been. You went into NaNoWriMo knowing you were going to be behind since the first three days of November you were at Convolution. You knew that you probably wouldn’t be able to write 1667 words for those three days. And although you surprised yourself by writing 2564
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I am a technophile. I may not have the latest and greatest in computer gear, but there’s a good chance I have read about it. If I can justify putting it into my workflow and can afford it, I will purchase it. That is how I ended up with a Macbook Pro, a first generation
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I spent last weekend at Convolution and had a good time This is the second year of the convention, and they are running things excellently. Great guests, great panels, and great events during the three days. There were a few hiccups, but there are always hiccups, and they were doing their best to fix them
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