Writer’s Diary – Romance Author With A Few Opinions
By coincidence, I sent My Demon Warlord to my copy editor on December 31. That feels like such a complete “she must have planned it that way” but that’s actually the day it was done enough. I’ve taken a couple of days to get my head clear before I dive into Sinclair Sisters Book 3. […]
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Writer’s Diary – Romance Author With A Few Opinions
I have a status! Something to tell you! I just sent the MS for My Demon Warlord to the copy editor. It turned out that I did not one but two significant rewrites even after my revisions were done. I wasn’t happy with certain parts of the story. My second paper read-through was a sea […]
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Writer’s Diary – Romance Author With A Few Opinions
Happy Holidays to you and all your loved ones. Holiday Persimmons, Photo by Yours Truly.
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I’ve pretty much stopped blogging completely, hanging out more on Twitter and Facebook, but I’m also writing under two new names and am doing some blogging at those websites: Mica Stone and A.K. Stone. You can still find info on everything I’ve ever published (and will publish) as Alison Kent here!
When I was around twelve years old, 1970 or so, a family in our church gave us an upright piano. Their youngest son played, and they were buying a new one for him. I knew how to read music; back in the day, they taught these things in school. Also, we had music lessons at […]
I grab Lego Dude and Horse Crazy directly off the school bus and drive to the appointment. So when the orthodontist tells me that Lego Dude’s teeth are disgusting, I wasn’t too worried because he hadn’t brushed his teeth since the morning. But when I see just how disgusting they were, I realize its been a while. A long while. Gums are red and puffy. Teeth are fairly clean.
We tell Lego Dude he has to brush his teeth and he says, “I am!” At home, we discuss and he says, “I am!” After a demonstration of his brushing technique, I come to the following conclusion:
When Lego Dude says he brushes his teeth, he’s not kidding. He ONLY brushes his teeth. Just the teeth, not the gums. All this time and he hasn’t been brushing his gums! It’s funny actually and I can’t get mad at the poor kid because we keep saying, “BRUSH YOUR TEETH” and that’s exactly what he’s doing.
Until next blog,
CJ
I grab Lego Dude and Horse Crazy directly off the school bus and drive to the appointment. So when the orthodontist tells me that Lego Dude’s teeth are disgusting, I wasn’t too worried because he hadn’t brushed his teeth since the morning. But when I see just how disgusting they were, I realize its been a while. A long while. Gums are red and puffy. Teeth are fairly clean.
We tell Lego Dude he has to brush his teeth and he says, “I am!” At home, we discuss and he says, “I am!” After a demonstration of his brushing technique, I come to the following conclusion:
When Lego Dude says he brushes his teeth, he’s not kidding. He ONLY brushes his teeth. Just the teeth, not the gums. All this time and he hasn’t been brushing his gums! It’s funny actually and I can’t get mad at the poor kid because we keep saying, “BRUSH YOUR TEETH” and that’s exactly what he’s doing.
Until next blog,
CJ
Originally posted May 13, 2009 Today at Paperback Writer, Lynn Viehl is talking about poetry and Sage Cohen’s book WRITING THE LIFE POETIC. I know next to nothing about poetry, not about iambic pentameter or modernist and post-modernist, though I do love me a good Haiku and for awhile was Twittering in Haiku form. That […]
“Two years ago, I disconnected my work computer from the Internet and established a set of rules to minimize the time I spent online. My annual page count has tripled, despite the fact that I maintain a blog, teach online classes, and do a lot of socializing and promotion. That was a shock.” ~ Taming […]
A great deal of the art of lovely prose is its rhythm and the connection of the rhythm to meaning. Varying sentence structure and making the structures appropriate to your mood, intent, etc., is critical, as if fitting the rhythms together in a musical way. However, there is one dirty little trick that anyone can […]