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Post #NaNoWriMo, Pre Finishing
Closer. Ever closer. That’s where I am in the last book of the Carrdia series. There’s a good chance I’ll reach the end by the time I post again. So, mid month, which was my hope. You know, so I … Continue reading
The Cost
It was a job, time spent with tasks to do for someone else, repetitive meaninglessness stealing her creativity. It was security, providing benefits unless she needed them, the biggest benefit of all the dreams where she was somewhere else. It … Continue reading
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Lifeforce
On her knees begging for acceptance, her heart’s depth her nakedness, the essence possessed was her lifeforce laid bare. Learning two reactions, those who turned away, those who faded, fading took time, the scars left behind draining her soul. Oh … Continue reading
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#NaNoWriMo Ending – Resolve
It’s my sincere hope that everyone met their personal goals during NaNoWriMo. It’s my further hope you continue, that you finish the draft, and one day revise it. NaNo is but the beginning of the beginning. If you didn’t win, … Continue reading
The Space Between Whispers
The night was as it always was, captured in wishes, yearning for a miracle to deliver more than wanting, more than a tearful holiday begging for a self that was right, not wrong. She came in a dream of angels, … Continue reading
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Worldbuilder
A place she’d seen, at first a pinpoint of light waiting in the darkness. It expanded, land rising as mountains, falling as great seas. Communities awoke, cultures spread, good and evil, the gray between, all finding a place to mix … Continue reading
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#NaNoWriMo Week 4 – Thankful
Sometimes the stars align. That alone is reason for me to be thankful. Two novels. Two months. I’m tired, I’m weary, and still enthused, still grateful for my creativity. Yes, stars will align on November 25th 2021, the day I … Continue reading
Compulsion
There shouldn’t be edges in the world, she wanted to align them, better that life be wild, all the world curves. There shouldn’t be strings, you know, strings hanging off things, stealing her sleep till they were trimmed. There shouldn’t … Continue reading
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Dream of Cherishing
It was a dream she’d had, enough to fill her heart, love and tenderness, affection that’d never part, a hand to hold when walks were cold, a winter’s evening in a snowy park. A better life, an imagined life, a … Continue reading
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#NaNoWriMo Week 3 – Magnification
It’s true. Experience is invaluable, and never has that been more true for me than right now. I’m currently deep into an adventure that goes far beyond NaNo. Over the last seven years I’ve learned how much I was capable … Continue reading
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