Every year, I find myself typing up or taking really messy photos of my handwritten king cake recipe to share with friends (or really anyone who asks). It's generally a crowd pleaser and a pretty basic king cake. Is this the world's best king cake? Probably not. Is it far and away better than most …
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I just realized I only blogged once in 2020. And if that isn't a metaphor for the last year, then I'm not sure what is. I even planned going into 2020 to blog more often, trying to at least hit once a month. But nope. I wrote one blog. Whoops. I'm not a big one …
I spend a lot of time on writer twitter. Ok fine. Probably more than I ought to, since I'm trying to get something new written. But seeing all the tweets about word counts mid-pandemic make it seem like the perfect time to get this off my chest. It seems like everyone has advice on what …
Is this not the face of wisdom? Ok fine. You're right. It's the face of mooching for hotdogs. Same difference I suppose. Anyone who knew me before this year knew that I was not (by any stretch of the imagination) a dog walker. But life, as it does, decided that I needed to change my …
Ten years ago I took a stab at my first loaf of bread. It was a complete and utter disaster. What emerged was approximately the shape, size and consistency of a shot-put. If I were looking for a home-protection device, I had nailed it. So for the next...oh...eight years I gave up on bread. No …
If you told me in 2016 when I was starting my first split narrative, that I'd be up to my eyeballs in WWI for part of 2017, all of 2018 and long into 2019 I'd have rolled my eyes. Growing up, it wasn't much on my radar screen. Instead overshadowed by the gilded lore of …
After 3 days of my husband asking me repeatedly "WHO IS GOING TO DIE IN GAME OF THRONES?!" I finally came up with an answer based on reading a ton of fantasy and also as a writer. Most of this comes from writing characters and arcs. So let's call it my "character arc/plot/redemption" theory. And …
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Here we are. January 1, 2019. Just typing the words seems absurd. Even though I've been calendaring things for 2019 for a couple months now. While a lot of folks start off a new year with goals, I've never been that person. For one, I am terrible at keeping resolutions. And two, they always seem …
Here we are, staring down 2019 like a freight train. There's no stopping time. And every time I get to this time of the year I start reflecting on my life. But somehow the end of 2018 seems to mark a new milestone in my life. Two years ago, I picked back up writing. From …
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