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Making a Career – Writing as a Hobbyist
At the end of November, when the residual effects of the move and settling in seemed to taper off, I sat back down with my trusty computer and started to write again. Over the last few years, fiction...
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Fiction Going Nowhere, Part 2
Sometimes, when weeks aren’t like this last one where I was so busy with multiple, sometimes pressing tasks, that fiction was farthest from my mind, I practice just letting what wants to be written...
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Planting a Paradise
I finally have a garden space that allows me to experiment. For me experiment = play = happy me + hopefully reproducible results that can lead to happy others too. The secret of this garden — and by...
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not one is not held
The Lives of the Heart Are ligneous, muscular, chemical. Wear birch-colored feathers, green tunnels of horse-tail reed. Wear calcified spirals, Fibonaccian spheres. Are edible, are glassy; are clay;...
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steps to a goal – How to Think Sideways
* I know most of my Wander-Bird visitors are here because we know each other on the How To Think Sideways Forums. On the off chance that you arrived without coming across Holly Lisle’s many writing...
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trip to the coast
Just for your visual pleasure, the Mendocino Coast in February Source: Wander-Bird
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Quiet Folk
Part of the occasional series, Fiction Going Nowhere. *** Quiet Folk I’ve always felt that the dead are pretty quiet folk. They sound mostly like dry leaves, or like the skitterings of mice. Having...
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Words Aren’t Working
Words and I aren’t having the best of relationships right now. It started out decently at the beginning of February but by the end had deteriorated. 1. I learned a poem by heart. I spoke it aloud in...
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National Poetry Moth
National Poetry Moth I hereby nominate you, dusk winged silence, to be our mascot, you who’ve eaten and eaten so well every night on the collards in my garden. Your greenlit body made to...
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Letting the Dust Settle
The north wind is gusting outside – it comes racing down the Central Valley, picks up topsoil and whatever isn’t tied down. The air has a haze and is harried by the change in weather. The house holds...
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Shifted Visions, chugging along
Hear that creak and the bang of train cars moving out? After a long hiatus, the wheels are turning once again! 2015 was a doozy of a year. Well, I take it back, it wasn’t as much of a doozy as it...
View ArticleWell, THAT was a massive bungle
for which I sincerely apologize. If you’re thinking, “what?” then count your lucky stars you missed out on a flood of posts from yours truly. I installed a plugin that I thought would just import my...
View Articledeleted the Plugin :(
It was a good idea but I just didn’t know how to use it well enough and didn’t have the patience to figure out if I have a login account to the WordPress support site. Does anyone know of a plugin or...
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transition and beauty: the promise of doors
I know I’m not alone in being captivated by beautiful doors. They say something. It’s not just bold paint, calling out to us, though the bright colors are eye-catching. Maybe it’s the attention to...
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Into the Light – a short story
Standing on the sidewalk, Hannah loosened the ring on one tripod leg and lengthened it slightly until the level-bubble was centered, then she re-tightened it. She sighted through the viewfinder again...
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Yosemite in summer…
… is not something I’d really recommend. It is the Disneyland of Nature, at least down in the valley, where it parodies itself (the Yosemite that once might have existed): You can go to the gift shops...
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A note to a character in my story, 2008
I came across this in the small notebook in which I started planning a 2008 NaNoWriMo story. It reveals more about its author than the character, but it was a good start. It let my creative mind know I...
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the lovely idea of synchronicity
(This old post on synchronicity was from my old blog and it’s just been sitting around. I realized it’s kind of relevant to my work on a short story – I had a realization the other day that connected...
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I’ve refrained from watering the front lawn for two years – in spite of that, it’s managed to not be totally killed. Go Bermuda grass! Problem is, I don’t want grass, I want edibles and medicinals and...
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not one is not held
The Lives of the Heart Are ligneous, muscular, chemical. Wear birch-colored feathers, green tunnels of horse-tail reed. Wear calcified spirals, Fibonaccian spheres. Are edible, are glassy; are clay;...
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