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Tricking The Bad Guys Into Coming To You 26 Aug 2013 | 11:54 pm
PROGRESS REPORT FOR 8/23 AND 25/13 New Words: 4000 (3100 / 900 ) on chapter 2 ("The Winnowing, 1874") of Copper Heart. Kate sets up an elaborate con in Tombstone, with the unwitting help of Wyatt Ear...
A Cat Who Knows What She Wants 26 Aug 2013 | 10:43 pm
I don't always throw up hairballs on the bed... ...But when I do, I only do so on the freshest and cleanest sheets. Stay fuzzy, my friends! (Hayes, 8/24/13)
Learning The Tombstone Ropes Before They Knot Into A Noose 23 Aug 2013 | 08:12 pm
My one big Writer Hangup, as you probably remember if you've read this journal for any length of time, is length. When it comes to prose I always worried that I overwrite; I always worry that what I w...
I'm Wyatt, And I'll Be Your Greeter Today Here In Tombstone 22 Aug 2013 | 10:37 pm
I always enjoy reading articles like "'Fight for what you believe in': How best-selling authors battled rejection", since it's inspirational on two levels: The obvious one, but also as a reminder of h...
Rediscovered Family History - The Maternal / Midwestern Edition 20 Aug 2013 | 01:05 am
In 1997, the year after my grandmother Ruth Andre Knepp died, my mother and I traveled to her hometown of Burlington, Iowa, and spoke with a lady named Marcella Norling, who'd been both her closest fr...
Foolish Prophet 19 Aug 2013 | 11:24 pm
I finally just watched The Social Network. I don't know if this will happen or not, but it's certainly made me inclined to use Live Journal more often. PROGRESS REPORT FOR 8/17/13 New Words: 1300 on...
Burning Fences 13 Aug 2013 | 11:25 pm
The title originally just referred to the scene in the Progress Report below, but it works well enough as an analogy to one way I end up writing. I don't typically get writer's block--generally I have...
Jefferson Davis Said Yep, It Was About Slavery 22 Jul 2013 | 10:36 pm
I don't know if this is because of the Trayvon Martin case or it's just one of those cyclical things, but I've noticed another rise in Internet comment chatter about the Civil War and whether or not t...
Last Week's Out-Of-Context Quote Grew Up With Soap Operas 1 Jul 2013 | 10:22 pm
Me: "Like a communicable disease...these are the days of our lives".
Fading Through The Door Into Summer 1 Jul 2013 | 06:38 am
This month, or rather the hours that are left of it, marks 30 years since I decided I wanted to be a writer. That desire never went away, although there where stretches where I tried to ignore it, and...
