Inspiration Alley

A Friday Roundup of Awesome

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:20:46 -0500

I have a Deep Post percolating in my brain that’s just not ready for y’all yet, so instead I’m passing you on to some of the other awesome I’ve come across this week.

Justine Musk had a post this week On The Art of Mastery and Soul Making, which is…

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I want, like, an entire album of this. Haunting and gorgeous.

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:26:28 -0500

I want, like, an entire album of this. Haunting and gorgeous.

Awaiting Revisions In My Sandbox

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:38:47 -0500

For those of you who were following the whole Kindle Worlds thing yesterday, you should all go read this post by John Scalzi. He’s sensible and highlights the initial “hey this isn’t a great idea for writers” aspects of things.

Allergy season has kicked…

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Midweek #ROW80 Check-in and Amazon's Going To Monetize Fanfic?

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:48:29 -0500

So the Hammer and Gobsmacker are still working their way through Riven. I’m not bleeding too badly yet. There’s nothing being mentioned that I didn’t kind of expect.

While I’m waiting on that, I’m up to my ears in historical research, dipping into all…

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Making It Your Own

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:06:48 -0500

Holy MOLY this new project is making me so SO hyper. I’ve got research books out of the library on every horizontal surface, loading my ereader, and I swear, it’s like being a kid in a candy store, dipping my hand into one jar after another, tasting a…

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Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:33:10 -0500

So I think I mentioned to y’all that I was doing some exploration to see what other foods in my diet are aggravating my inflammatory response other than beef. I’ve had a watch list and have eliminated a bunch of stuff. This weekend I was happily able to

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The End is Nigh! No Wait, It's Here!

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:24:44 -0500

Hear ye, hear ye! Yesterday I wrote “The End” on Riven.
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It is no mistake that Snoopy is dancing with bunnies because that’s exactly what my brain is doing right now. During the last…

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Choice of Perception and A Throw Down

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:40:25 -0500

Sometimes I love the Universe because it dumps exactly what I need to hear in my inbox or my Twitter stream exactly when I need to hear it. So I had to share this week’s messages from the Universe with you, in case you needed to hear them too.

First up,…

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Once Upon A Time In Wonderland

Thu, 16 May 2013 07:56:27 -0500

First OOOOOOO
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Oh I am SUPER excited about this. I really enjoyed the first season of Once Upon A Time, and this looks like it takes a lot of the kinds of things I loved from that show…

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Midweek #ROW80 Update

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:56:02 -0500

The creative mind is a funny thing. It might vomit up part of an idea but nothing precisely USABLE. You write it down anyway because you think it’s a cool kernel of a something, stick it in the idea file and go on your merry way. Then somebody says…

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How Plotting Is Like Pantsing...In Fast Forward

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:29:43 -0500

I love discussing process with people (and by people, I mean other writers). It’s one of my favorite forms of shop talk. Everybody has their own method, and it’s cool to share those methods and see what you can pick up from somebody else that will help…

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Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update

Sun, 12 May 2013 10:29:29 -0500

To all the moms out there, Happy Mother’s Day. I’ll be leaving in a while (after mass infusion of caffeine) to go see mine.

I didn’t get around to posting yesterday because I was busy ripping out the rest of the scene I wanted to finish this week. Made…

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More On Serials…This Time With DATA!On Sunday, I posted...

Fri, 10 May 2013 09:42:55 -0500

New Adult Fiction Defined--And What About Genre Fiction?

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:36:35 -0500

What is New Adult? Well, as this postmakes abundantly clear, nobody has really settled on a definition. Elizabeth gathers up definitions from AAAAALL over the place. It’s a hotly debated topic. For my purposes, my favorite was this definition by Jane…

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Midweek #ROW80 Check-in and Did You Know There’s Amazon...

Wed, 08 May 2013 08:15:05 -0500

Midweek #ROW80 Check-in and Did You Know There’s Amazon Instant Video For Wii?

Okay first off, I just have to share this thing my husband sent me. This is the BEST parental…

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Puppies Vs. Stairs

Tue, 07 May 2013 10:56:31 -0500

I have been BLASTING through my To Do list for work this morning. Gotta meet with a repair guy at the house this afternoon, so taking the afternoon off work. In lieu of more scintillating stuff, I’m offering up a dose of adorable. Because we can all…

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Do I Still Know How To Write For Fun?

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:46:29 -0500

Susan and I have been talking about writing for fun lately. She talks about needing more fun in her life in her post today,and it got me thinking about myself. She mentioned this weekend that she thought I should write some fan fiction. Which spawned a…

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Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update

Sun, 05 May 2013 12:32:14 -0500

Happy Cinco de Mayo! Once I finish my tea (and oh boy is it ever a two cup morning), I’ll be putting together the marinade for the carne asadaI’m making for tonight’s little Cinco de Mayo get together with the neighbors. It’s the first time we’ve had…

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Give Me Your Non-Beef Burger Recipes

Fri, 03 May 2013 08:12:17 -0500

It is a sad, sad day. I mentioned a couple weeks ago, that I had realized that beef kinda doesn’t like me. Totally makes my body’s inflammatory response kick in. Which, hey, kinda sucks, but I’m willing to tolerate a temporary weight gain of a couple…

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Paranormal Bunnies

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:52:49 -0500

Rolling, rolling, rolling…keep that word count rolling…

Had a good writing day yesterday, at the end of which I got bunnied. Bad.

See, Rivendeals with a whole new cast of characters in the Mirus world. I wanted to play with new folks, new locations and…

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