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When your 100-word limit contest entry is hanging steady at 104 words.

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2018-10-29

D8

Burdening expectations, what or who is good or evil - who decides, idolization, traditions - necessary or antiquated, and more. Also, a big one: what is love?

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2018-10-09

Quiet writing time it's a luxury to an author. ...Keep Writing. Your writing ideas come when they are ready. (Art/Comic By: Kristy )

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2018-09-12

Happy birthday to poet Jack Prelutsky, creator of the umbrellaphant, banaconda, clocktopus and radishark – Sept. 8!

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2018-09-07

Made really good progress yesterday on Part 2 of my current Can I repeat that and actually stay on track for this edit?

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2018-07-24

Writing: “Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” - Winnie-the-Pooh

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2018-07-07

How authors and writers feel every night, just before they go to bed. Be Writing. (Huge thank you to and Art/Comic By: Kristy )

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2018-06-23

As an author sometimes your head is just so full of a story you have to write and let it all out in the writing to see what you have at the end. (Art/Comic By: )

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2018-06-08

The eternal author struggle when you know you have to cut something in your writing. Keep Writing. (Art/Comic By: )

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2018-06-07

painting by my friend Kelly McConnell perfectly describes the number of twisting threads in my life these days.

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2018-05-22

Gosh I haven’t posted here in AGES. I’m not dead lol. I’m still hard at work with my WIP and making drawings here and there. 😋

Here’s a quick drawing of Elain from

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2018-04-09

“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” - A.A. Milne

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2018-04-03

As an author sometimes my head is just so full of a story. The only way to fix that is to let it all out in the writing and then see what I have at the end.

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2018-03-25

Fun fact: purple is a very important color in my book. As it represented royalty in traditional history, in this world it represents the power of magic. I wonder how powerful she’ll become...

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2018-03-17

My favorite discussions about editing:

Me> This confuses me.
Writer> No it doesn't.

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2018-02-26

Lots of editing to do, so I will be away from the twitterverse today. Hope you all have a great one...

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2018-02-21

Trying to edit book + needing to draw these two scenes = bad time management from J. Leigh. But you know. It was worth it.

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2018-02-16

Writing: A writer's thoughts before they go to sleep. (Art/Comic By: )

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2018-02-06