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Working on two different Shreddy stories simultaneously…

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Khristmas break means I get to let the child stay up until she falls asleep on the couch next to me watching cat videos. Continue reading “Writing and Watching Cats”

Zero to story in 48 hours. That has to be a record for me.

The four-year-old came running in: “There’s so many imaginary guys! And so many imaginary cats! And so many imaginary dogs here!”

Elaine is playing a pretend game that involves skipping about and happily saying, “I sold a story today!”

Elaine has introduced two more imaginary talking cats to our household: Mornging Glory and Honeysuckle. That brings us up to five, including the original three: Rosie, Froggy, and Quinny. Froggy is, of course, a green talking cat.

Today, my daughter says that we’re playing a game called “The Mermaid and her Swimming Cat.” I get to be the cat. She’s the mermaid.

I tallied it up, and I’ve written 100,000 words of fiction in the last year. Yet, somehow, I still feel like I’m not writing enough…

Reading the wiki page on raccoons completely changed the short story I just started. Fortunately, it made it better.

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I love it when research involves watching videos of baby raccoons. Continue reading “Important Racoon Research”

By the end of Rainfurrest: I met all kinds of amazing people and had the most fun I’ve ever had at a con! I got to be on panels with Alan Dean Foster; I had a chance to pitch my latest novel to a publisher; “Otters In Space” and the Rainfurrest anthology both sold out; and, I had to keep a pen clipped to my badge so that I could keep up with all the requests to sign things!

So far at Rainfurrest: I have two stories in “Stories from Camp RainFurrest,” the charity anthology which looks beautiful; both that and “Otters In Space” are available at the FurPlanet table in the Dealer’s Den; and, I was on a really fun and lively panel about Overcoming Writer’s Block. Continue reading “Panelist at Rainfurrest”