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    How To Lose a Third of a Million Dollars Without Really Trying

    Yeah kind of feeling the same way. It was like she was saying....I take responsibility but no one told me (in other words she didn't take responsibility)
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    The Basics of World Creation?

    My world building started with time...45 years in the future to be exact (I better hurry up with my 5 book series!) and the premise that the poles had shifted in 2012. What kind of world would exist after that? Each of my 5 books has a different ecosystem so I'll be creating 5 unique worlds. The...
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    This is a good point on the Fantasy genre

    YA my editor informed me is teenagers and above and need girlfriend/boyfriend stuff happening. MG is Middle graders...not so much romance stuff.
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    Tell me about your first serious attempt at creative writing

    My first story was around the age of 10 or so. We lived deep in the Montana wilderness without TV so my whole world was reading. I wrote a book about a girl sleuth based on my love of Nancy Drew and where we lived (dude ranch). My dad MADE me read it out loud at the dinner table then criticized...
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    Is writing inherently depressing?

    In my world, Love is the key to the human condition. As far as the emotional state that comes with writing...the fundamental nature of the universe is creating. When I am creating/writing I am experiencing myself as a divine creator. And that is the emotion of joy. I know people who, instead...
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    Estate planning, but also publishing cycles

    Nice resource, thanks!
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    Publishers Weekly Review: Dragon's Trail

    never heard of "self-aware epic fantasy" before but congrats on a great review!
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    Can telepathic magic havy any practical use?

    As as an actual psychic, telepath and energy reader....here are some actual facts about how it all works...which may or may not be helpful! First telepathy works best when you're in the same timing...so two people traveling in a car have a common destination and are traveling the same...
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    My character doesn't like her name. Help

    Exactly what I was thinking....She could end up renaming herself and then everyone from her past still calls her Zara....(took that right out of my own life)
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    Why doesn't anyone write about more corpse-like and uncanny vampires?

    Vampires live on blood...which is all about life, passion, and power. In esoteric studies getting someone's blood is a way of gaining power over them. So perhaps a new version of a vampire could be like shamans who stalk power....how would a vampire stalk power? Perhaps by going after powerful...
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    NaNoWriMo 2017!

    I'm 1000 words behind my daily goal. Someone's got be the devil's advocate! But I did finish the chapter and map out the next!
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    NaNoWriMo 2017!

    1687 words! Almost double my goal. Hard to stop and do other things in the flow.
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    blog A Worldbuilding Magazine

    OMG...this just through my November goals off course! Awesome stuff!
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    NaNoWriMo 2017!

    Writing isn't your life? lol
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