A metaphor for my month to come... Tortoise Battle: Real Tortoise vs Pretend Tortoise (not unlike Real Life vs. Fictional World) Note: Pretend Tortoise appears to be winning I've been pretty absent here on the blog of late. I've been writing and revising a lot. And I really haven't had much to say here. I have a few books and recipes I could share...and I will, eventually. But I've pulled out of most social media of late. I can't handle the negativity right now. So instead of talking about any of that, I'll share a little about what I'm gearing up for (besides trick-or-treating). We are one week from the kick-off of National Novel Writing Month 2016. That's seven days to prepare myself and my world for 50,000 words in 30 days. Technically, I started prep last week. I got my current "novel under revision" (a middle grade book titled The Smart Girl and the Magic Boy ) to a comfortable pause-place, and readied both my November a
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