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Hyperfocus of the Week: Squatchcon!
There’s nothing like looking through your closet a couple days before you are doing something where you must look like an adult and realizing that all your tops have large… Read more ⇢
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Overthinkings: Shaping a Story
The sun is shining here in Sequim for the fifth day this week! Grass is growing, trees are budding, and my cosmos seedlings are staring to peek out of the… Read more ⇢
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Hyperfocus of the Week: The Perfect BBQ Menu
At 8:32 am on April 4th, 2005 in a small city in Germany, I gave birth to my first daughter after an easy four hours of labor. Aside for her… Read more ⇢
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Overthinkings: Floriography
People have been attributing meaning to flowers at least as long as they have been telling stories. We’ve been reading mythology from all over the world this year with the… Read more ⇢
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Hyperfocus of the Week: Springing Spring
I finished a book this week! Well, the first draft…sort of. Even before it was done I knew there was a chapter that needed to be rewritten for content, and… Read more ⇢
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Overthinkings: That Book
Long form fiction is a unique animal. Unlike short stories which by definition have a word limit, a series can theoretically go on forever. Ask Wheel of Time readers. As… Read more ⇢
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Overthinkings: Underused Elements of Setting
Sometimes I overthink deeply. Sometimes I have overthinking spaghetti brain. This was more of a spaghetti brain week. I’ve been putting together my workshops for SquatchCon and part of my… Read more ⇢
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Hyperfocus of the Week: Gathering my Tools
I am a dabbler. It starts with a “hmmm, that might be interesting…” or “Ohhh, I wanna try that…” or a “have you ever thought about…” and then there I… Read more ⇢
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Overthinkings: Creating Arenas
Yesterday I spent hours sitting at my kitchen table talking, or typing to customer service representatives. Nine of them. The Grizzly tool guy was a human right from the start… Read more ⇢
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Hyperfocus of the Week(s): Broadway in the Basement and Girl Scout Cookies
The last two weeks have been bonkers. Someone at Girl Scout headquarters decided to start regional cookie sales a week earlier this year—after I had put Broadway in the Basement… Read more ⇢
Mamasquatch the Writer 