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Doing National Novel Writing Month my own way

NaNo My Way (revisited)

It’s almost that time again for National Novel Writing Month. I think of this time with fondness, but am less fond of the fact that it always creeps up on me when I’m super busy.…

Queen of the Garden of Girls, Part 43

Note: Since I’ve been posting this for over a year now, and since I have quite a bit written, these posts will get a little longer for the time being. At least until my creative…

On Writing First Drafts: What Queen of the Garden of Girls Has Taught Me

There was a time, back in my early twenties, when I thought my first drafts were pretty darn good. I thought a bit of proofreading and some light editing was good enough. I did not…

Queen of the Garden of Girls, Part 37

Chapter Twelve continued Elaina’s hands automatically flew to her hair, which hung down around her shoulders in soft tangles, clearly not recently brushed. Her stomach turned over, the nibble of the cookie suddenly not sitting…

Queen of the Garden of Girls, Part 33

Chapter Eleven continued Elaina took a hasty sip of her ice cold water. Then her eyes wandered back to where Robert was still poking at his food. “It’s not poisoned, you know,” she said, perhaps…

NaNo My Way

I’m a reader and a writer. Or should that be a writer and a reader? My mom tells me I fell in love with books before I could read and that I used to sit…

Everyone Has a Story

Whether a bit of non-fiction or a piece of fiction, everyone has a story to tell. Whether writer, author, or neither, everyone has words to share. The Lily Cafe is a small blog, but I’d…

Not a Mom Blog

This isn’t a mom blog. But it is. Yet it isn’t. Believe it or not, I really am this indecisive! But let me start by talking about boxes. Not physical boxes. The figurative boxes we…

My love, part 1

In honor of February and Valentine’s Day, I’ll be posting a long love story poem I wrote about a decade ago, divided into 4 parts. From dawn to dusk From sun to moon From life…

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