• Change is Good, Pt. 2

    Change is Good, Pt. 2

    Back in February, I posted a blog called Change is Good. It was literally about change…           …being good. This time around, I’m tackling change, the verb, as in, to become different. WE’RE MOVING! My home is becoming a different home and it’s GOOD! I never thought I’d move again. I…

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  • Wise Words

    Fresh from another successful UW Madison Writers’ Institute, my head is spinning! I try to take it easy the first day back. Four days of information, socializing, and trying to sleep in a bed other than my own wears me out. I need time to decompress and process. One of my favorite things to do is to…

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  • Cupdate 2

    I can check a couple more things off my Cup List! Thanks to the support and encouragement of some great friends, after driving past it twenty times a week, I finally had lunch at Noodles & Company.  And now I’m okay with simply driving by. The company was fabulous! The noodles? Meh. But I wanted to go and…

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  • After watching a movie called Ex Machina, Dave and I were discussing our earliest memories. It’s funny the things you remember. When I was like four or five, one night my mom and I came home from a picnic and interrupted a break-in at our apartment. They set the end of the sofa on fire…

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  • Writing is hard. Editing is hard. Publishing is harder. Why is publishing harder? Because you thought you were done. Done writing. Done editing. You thought you were ready to publish. You were wrong. Okay, I. I was wrong. There is SO MUCH that goes into the publishing process. I had no idea. I honestly thought…

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  • The Then of Publication

    As I prepare for my first indy-publishing experience, I’m reminded of the very first time I saw my words in print. I had just joined a writers’ group and one of the member benefits was guaranteed publication in one of their two annual journals. I was ecstatic! My words! In print! I was discussing these…

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  • We celebrated our In Print five year anniversary this past Saturday at Cliffbreakers. As a founding member, I was asked (cough*required*cough) to speak. I struggled with my words, not because I don’t have a million awesome things to say about In Print, but because I worried that the five original founders might be sharing the…

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  • Monday, Monday

    Bah da bah bah da da So good to me. Or is it? (This is probably not going where you think it is…) So, I’m working on the FINAL draft of the 50k word novel I am going to self-publish any minute now and I have lyrics in my story. YOU CAN’T DO THAT. I…

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  • We recently saw the movie Ride Along 2 (don’t judge me), and although it was pretty much what you’d expect, a B- comedy, there was one line that resonated with me. In defense of his irritating, obnoxious, try-too-hard, needy brother-in-law to be as played by Kevin Hart, trust nobody detective Ice Cube says something to the…

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  • I AM IN PRINT.

    In Print, the professional writers’ organization that I helped create, turns five in March. That is pretty impressive. Not just to me, but to the hundreds of writers that we’ve served in a variety of ways over the last five years. Five years! Condensing five years of highlights into a manageable blog has been quite…

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