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WFMAD Day 24 – Overcoming the pain
No earthquakes up here on the tundra today, so I’ll write yesterday’s original blog idea. The idea came from my right knee. The right knee that started acting up at mile 13 during yesterday’s run, and forced me to stop many, many times to stretch. (Because it’s not really my knee that is the issue. [...]
WFMAD Day 23 – Earthquake edition
I had a great run today. On that great run, I thought of the PERFECT WFMAD blog post. I shuffled home, ate, showered, and headed out to run a few errands before I sat down to write. Somewhere in the middle of the errands, there was an earthquake. No, I did not feel it, though [...]
WFMAD Day 22 – Habit-trails
We are gerbils. We have our paths that we run daily; kitchen, car, office, school, work. We pause at regular intervals to eat and to (ahem) get rid of what we’ve eaten. Most of us bathe regularly and brush our teeth. We are the products of our habits. Only problem is, when not enough of [...]
WFMAD Day 21 – The Calm Center of Chaos
Ready for week three? I’m not. I’m stuck back in the middle of March. Every time I see a calender, I break down in hysterical sobs. So much yet undone, so much more being piled on my plate, and I’m supposed to be writing a book in the middle of this chaos? Do you know [...]
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WFMAD Day 20 – Stuck in a rut?
Is your writing stuck? Maybe not. Maybe the ideas are sputtering along. But you’re not happy, because you know (down deep inside) that what you are writing is a bit mechanical. Bloodless. DOA. If you have the kind of busy life that makes it hard to develop a consistent writing routine (hence your presence on [...]
WFMAD Day 19 – Anger is a writer’s best friend
If you haven’t read the post I wrote at 4 am this morning about the lawsuit recently filed that accuses authorities at a Republic, MO middle school of covering up the alleged rapes of a special needs student, please do so now. We do not have a word in English that adequately expresses how angry [...]
District that tried to ban SPEAK accused of covering up rapes
I was planning on writing an update about the book banning efforts of Wesley Scroggins in Republic, MO next month. The school board finally made its decision about which books it would remove, and since we are so close to the one-year anniversary of the mess, I had decided to write about it then. But [...]
WFMAD Day 18 – Getting By With a Little Help
In my humble opinion, Joe Cocker’s version of this song is way better than the Beatles. What does Joe Cocker have to do with your writing? Your character needs some friends. We are often so focused on developing our main character and The Forces Of Evil Who Rally Against Her, that we neglect to use [...]
WFMAD Day 17 – Classical borrowings
Welcome to a blast from my past. Fractured Fairy Tales was a feature on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, a cartoon that ran in the early 1960′s (and is now available on Hulu). Aside from being stupid-funny and guaranteeing that your children will regard you as ancient if you go all nostalgic as soon as [...]
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