After weeks of thinking, planning, and scribbling (along with necessary reality checks), I’ve settled on several writing-related goals for the coming year. Fiction Goals Major goal: Book one in my dark fantasy series, The Last Bonekeeper, is ready for an…
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Goals: Blogging, Books, and Bonekeeping
Tagged with: goal setting, the writing life, writing commitment, writing goals
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Looking at Creativity the Write Way
I recently had a conversation with a friend who was upset by the snobbery she read about between creatives, specifically literary writers versus romance writers. (If it comes to fisticuffs, I’ll put my money on romance writers any day.) Setting…
Tagged with: creatives vs "ordinary" people, creativity, creativity vs. creative expression, writing truths
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My Mother, a Girl with a Star-Spangled Heart
At some point in the early 1960s, a boy on the playground yelled at me, “Your mother wears combat boots.” I don’t remember what prompted such a remark. If it was meant as an insult, I didn’t take it as…
An Update Long Overdue
In case you didn’t notice, I was mostly absent from this website in 2016 and 2017. My mom once told me people don’t notice things about us the way we think they do. Unless we have a button unbuttoned, a zipper…
Saying “Yes” to Saying “No”
Today is my last day as webmaster for SouthWest Writers (SWW). Tomorrow I’ll begin a semi-sabbatical for the remainder of the year. Not a rest from everything, just from taking on new responsibilities. A sabbatical, I suppose, from saying “yes.”…
Tagged with: encouragement to write, just write, the write attitude, writing commitment
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The Book That Sparked My Love of Science Fiction
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne? The Time Machine by H.G. Wells? Brave New World by Aldous Huxley? All great books, but none of these classics was the first to take me away to another world. By 1967,…
Dare. Dream. Write. More.
Don’t be self-conscious about dreaming, or about people thinking you’re too idealistic, and not serious enough. Don’t allow your self talk to be judgmental. Look at the world with wide-eyed enthusiasm, believe you are more powerful than the problems that…
Tagged with: courage to write, dare to dream, encouragement to write, live with purpose, Richard Branson
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238 Candles
The 4th of July is the day Americans celebrate the anniversary of their declaration of independence from British rule in 1776. It is not the day a peace treaty was signed or the day the last warship flying a Union…
Puppet Strings: Mercy Killing & Murder on “The 100″
In The CW’s new series “The 100,” a group of juvenile prisoners are secretly exiled from a dying Ark – 12 linked space stations housing the survivors of nuclear holocaust – and onto Earth’s surface to test if our planet…
Tagged with: characters, manipulation in writing, mercy killing, post-apocalyptic, storytelling, suspension of disbelief, The 100, writer's responsibility
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KL Wagoner 