I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to write down some of the issues I’m butting my head up against, as I write my…
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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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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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There is a sort of beauty found in terrible weather, which I’d forgotten. It’s nice to remember. Because I don’t currently have a backyard, I…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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