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Professional computer geek and linguist living in Germany, doing infosec stuff and being the freakiest mother ever.
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Tag Archives: writing
On women and romance novels
Ok, so, the game is up. I admit it. I read romance novels. Not exclusively, not all the time, and not every day. But I do read romance novels. Shocking, I know. And unlike my mom, I will not claim … Continue reading
Total. Overachiever.
Needless to say, I am surprised. I’ve never crossed the 50k threshold this early, though to be fair, the story is far from done, as I knew it would be. Still doing my best not to look back at how … Continue reading
And of course…
So I was sort of vaguely excited that I would get to start writing earlier than, you know, the entire continent of North America this month (I always try to write a few words around midnight on October 31/November 1st … Continue reading
The life of a professional X (for many values of X)
Once upon a time, I was a professional X, where X is a number of different things, depending upon which part of my life we’re talking about and where the jobs were. And now that Mr. T is almost nine … Continue reading
Bad Grammar and Low-Quality Writing Alert!
When I make the mistake of going back and looking over what I’ve posted while on-the-road, as it were, I cringe at some of the obvious grammar mistakes and poor wording that shows up. I’m writing mostly on the fly … Continue reading
How to make a writer feel guilty…
George R. R. Martin, one of my favorite fantasy writers, posted a link in his non-blog to the following warning Robin Hobb wrote about the dangers of blogging to fiction writers… Makes me feel guilty – my current excuse for … Continue reading
Short updates
NaNoWriMo – Ridiculously, I won. I told Karen – who deserves big congrats for finishing her novel days ahead of time, btw – that I had a great story for why I wasn’t going to finish, and then somehow, magically … Continue reading
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Week 39: Bump, kick, nudge, ouch, baby, don’t you want to come out yet?
38 weeks, even. Ok, so it’s 4:30 am on Sunday, but I’m still up and just about to go to bed on an enforced-bedtime-so-that-I-don’t-sleep-too-late-Monday deadline. Yeah, yeah, 4:30 am is too late by anyone’s measure, but it was 6:30 or … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, baby preparations, labor and delivery, Life, NaNoWriMo, novels, pregnancy, slacking, Thanksgiving, writing
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