Category: writing
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Ice that cake, baby
(What??!! A non Saturday Morning Post on Saturday??? What happened?? So, so many things. Just get over it.) Ah. It’s good to be back. *I lean back sipping my London fog and wondering who I am because whenever I go anywhere I always order a chai tea latte but what the heck* I once more…
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animal companions for your heroes and villains
The only pets I’ve ever had were hamsters when I was a kid. Though I love them dearly, I do wonder if owning hamsters was more traumatizing than anything else. One of my go-to stress dreams is of hamsters running amok in the house and me desperately trying to contain them. Also the first hamster…
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the romantic and the depressed
I decided to be super organized and actually planned out all my blog posts for the month of January, to ensure I would actually, you know, write blogs. However, I took one look at today’s topic, crumpled it, and hurled it out the window into the snow to freeze. I have thus arrived with no…
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Vibes and Aesthetics Only: Winter Edition
So the northeast got a big dumping of snow a few days ago, which meant I received a big dumping of snow. Woke up Monday morning to the cars practically buried in the driveway, and when (thanks due to dad and the neighbor) I got on the highway, it was one lane that was vagueishly…
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My (hopefully) triumphant return
Well, I’m back. Before I start this….is anyone listening?? It’s been so long I feel like I’m in an underground bunker, desperately manning the radio and sending out Morse code, hoping someone else survived the global nuclear meltdown. My last post was – good golly – on Oct 31st, appropritaly titled “I only come out…
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You never know what’s gonna happen: 6 years of NaNoWriMo
(I haven’t written a blog since October 6th??? Hahah, WHOOPS) Before we get into this, let’s do a quick recap: yes, I have been terribly absent from the blogsphere, and doing a not-to-good job at being consistent on Instagram, but I’m giving it my best shot, alright?? I have a lot of editing to do,…
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Writing is Not a DIY Project
I have drafted quite a few novels over the years (12 I think??? Geez), but I still can tell you, every time I sit down to do prep before I write a novel…I’m never sure what it was I did the last time. BUM BUM BUM It’s officially October, which means preptober for those of…
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thoughts from a writer melted by summer
Summer 2020 sucked. Summer 2021 has sucked in its own way too, not least because of the constant cycle of disasters world over and the stream of bad news. Though we may not have had murder hornets this year, we did have people trying to convince us to eat cicadas. The amount of creativity I’ve…
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I am not dead, presumed or otherwise
My grand return to blogging and social media has begun. Where am I??? Where have I been??? Who have I been?? (Who have I been?? Getting a little too existential there.) In October of 2019, I gave up on Twitter for some reason. I gave up on Instagram in 2020 for some reason (maybe it…
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THE JOLLY GENRE JUBILEE: A WRITING TAG
The wonderful, amazing, illustrious, cookie-flinging Kenzie recently started a new writing tag and I’M ALL ON BOARD *pulls train whistle* The Jolly Genre Jubilee is all about (you guessed it) GENRE. First some housekeeping: RULES & REGULATIONS thank the blogger who tagged you, and leave a link back to their blog leave a link back…
Bernadette Benda 