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3-Day Novel Writing Contest: T-11 Minutes
Me (admiring my sparkly blue mer-nicure): ”Hey, Mom? Got any glitter? I think glitter would really get me in the mood…” Mom (exasperated; sighing): “I really think you just need to stop procrastinating...
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3 Things I Learned from #3DNC
I didn’t quite finish my 3-Day novel (more on that later), but I definitely learned a lot about the fiction writing process. Here are the highlights: 1. Start With a Simple Genre Organizing would have...
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Eyelash Extensions? Really?
Today I went to a local boutique to pick up some more face cream. The nice-but-clueless middle-aged woman with radiant skin (mineral make-up, clearly) who helped me last time saw me waiting in line....
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Operation V-Day
Valentine’s Day didn’t suck this year! I am delighted. First, I learned all about 3-D printing during my morning walk (I listen to TED talks to keep me from collapsing from the utter boredom of walking...
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Alain de Botton’s TED Talk
I discovered Alain de Botton when I was like 15 and he was doing a book tour for How Proust Can Change Your Life that I caught on CSPAN. Of course I had never read Proust—I’d never even heard of …...
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Downton Abbey, secret male vice
Me: Well a good thing to do might be to set a date. Oh God. I just said “set a date” to you. I am SO SORRY. Like a point-of-no-return date. Him: I was like, “You mean like Lady Mary?” … Continue reading →
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Back to Africa: the Worst of Times
Sorting through photos and reading Karmen’s stories about our Africa trip made me realize just how tough it was during that first week of travel. I honestly wasn’t sure we were going to make it....
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How Myers-Briggs changed my freelance writing business
From biological anthropologist Helen Fischer’s Why Him? Why Her? to 5 Love Languages, I love a good personality test. But my all-time favorite is Myers-Briggs. I first took the official version of the...
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