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  • A well-known piece of writing advice from Stephen King is ‘kill your darlings.’ What does this mean? It means after you’ve spent hours creating the most perfect scene (or paragraph) with witty dialogue, intriguing action, and immense tension, only to find out it does nothing to move the story forward—you kill it. Delete it. Erase

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  • I’m a sucker for writing humor. Not writing humor, although I don’t mind that, but humor that has something to do with writing. See Exhibit A above. I don’t remember where I first saw it (probably Facebook) but I laughed my ass off. Every time I looked at it. I still love it. I will

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  • Happy Halloween!

    Happy Halloween to all who celebrate! May your pumpkins stay lit, your candy bag stay full, and your pointy nose stay attached! See you in November! Esmeralda Stone

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  • I made pie crust dough at six this morning. Not so I could make a pie that early, but because I like to refrigerate the dough for at least six hours before using it. It’s one of the things that makes it easier to roll out and handle. “How do you make your pie crust?”

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  • I did it. I folded, and I looked, and I’m (a little) horrified. I’m of course talking about my word count for Lasting Remains. We traveled in August, and I compiled what I’d written of Lasting Remains into a Word doc and emailed it to myself. You know, just in case there was some weird

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  • It was not a terribly productive weekend in regard to writing, and I try to remind myself that it’s fine when that happens. Even when it’s a long weekend. I get overly focused on making progress with a book, so much so that I lose sight of other things I want to do. Like putting

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  • Loving Remains

    Well, the editing took way longer than I hoped it would, but the eBook version of Loving Remains is finally available through Amazon. I have to add the Bitter Bunny Press logo to the copyright page and maybe change the width on the binding, but then the print version should be ready for proofing. The

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  • Fancy a brew, guv’nor?

    I learned something new about myself during the editing process of Loving Remains. I lean toward (not towards) British English when I write. Backwards, towards, afterwards… These are the British English versions. Another weird British English habit I have is where I place single quotation marks in relation to a comma or end punctuation. (The

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  • Time Well Wasted…

    I didn’t get any writing done on Lasting Remains yesterday. And I won’t this morning, either. While it makes me twitchy, it’s for a good reason. I’m yet again doing a re-read of Loving Remains – this is the 4th or 5th full re-read of the book (I have no idea who many times I’ve

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  • Monday, Monday

    When I was working a real job, I used to…well, not dread Mondays, but I certainly didn’t look forward to them. Even in the my last job, which was a technical writing gig with about the best team you could ask for, it was still work. But since changing to writing full-time, I love Mondays.

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