Writing

Unexpected validation — eeee! ;)

I recently had something startlingly nice happen to me! There’s a professor I had in the past who’s a noted and accomplished author. She’s got…

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Published again, yay! ;)

I’m published again! It’s a very small thing this time, but once again it came from the heart. In the gorgeously illustrated She Appears! Encounters…

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In sickness & health…

I don’t usually use trigger warnings in my writing, mostly because I don’t expect that many people read my blog, and those that do have…

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Literarily denuded! :)

So I’m thinking about books and research, as I’m driving back home from turning in yet another handful of library books, several of which were…

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Clearing the decks to write

Finally had a bit of a breakthrough on my dissertation proposal — hallelujah! Working now on getting a dissertation committee Chair, and figuring out all…

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Sweet & sour emotions

Being a student on a very tight budget, I am particularly fond of restaurants with cards that give you a free meal after a certain…

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A Paean to the Librarian

My dissertation proposal research continues apace – sometimes stutteringly slowly, other times with a swiftness and surety which reassures me that I’m on the right…

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Poisoning history

There’s an odd and disturbing trend I’ve noticed recently in my preferred form of brain candy; e.g.: smart female protagonists within the genre of urban…

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