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The Seeking

  • To Forgive or Punish

    It’s easy to say that forgiveness is the right thing to do when it’s a small problem. Don’t be angry at that child for stealing your candy, just forgive them and share next time. It’s a mentality that works great when you’re a child, but when you get up into the complexities and cruelties of…

  • A Fear of Compromise

    I love it when a project starts to near the finish line. I love it even more when all my plot pieces start falling into place and I begin to understand how the story wants to end. You can tell I end my novels in Pantser mode, right? I haven’t been able to be as…

  • Creating a Habit

    Over the weekend I was fortunate enough to participate in a workshop with fellow authors. It was there I learned something that I had always known deep down in my heart, but it was somehow different hearing it from people I knew and respected. The only way to become a better writer was to write.…

  • Tough Decisions

    A few weeks back, the weekend before KamiCon in Alabama, I found out that a good friend of mine had passed away. I had been friends with her for over 10 years, but we still kept in touch. We would encourage each other on writing and talking about work that we loved. She had fallen…

  • Sexism in Survival Situations

    When snow falls in the Southern U.S., everything closes. It’s something that the northern part of the country complains about, but then they close when temperatures dip over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. So I guess it’s not terribly different. My work closed today when we got about 2-3″ of snow outside. A section of the interstate…