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If I Were My Own Friend
Aug
06
, 2009
I have no pages to show for today, or none that I’m keeping. I got very impatient with myself about it. I started to really beat myself up, then I thought well there is the [...]
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Vampires and Paranormal Thrillers
Aug
03
, 2009
Several of you have written in about my Entertainment Weekly interview. You’ve said that I disrespected Anne Rice by saying that I pioneered my genre, not hers. I [...]
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Trying for Displine
Aug
02
, 2009
Left Jon tucked into bed. We made the mistake of turning off a DVD but not the television and got caught up in the movie, "Apooloosa" based on a Robert B. Parker book. [...]
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Writing Advice, or maybe just Shared Confusion
Jul
29
, 2009
So many of you ask me how to be a published writer, and I’m sort of stumped, because every writer I know well does it differently. We are very individualistic creatures, we [...]
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Why Didn’t Watch Apollo 11 Coverage
Jul
26
, 2009
I didn’t watch any of the Apollo 11 footage on TV or on the computer. I didn’t listen to any of the audio. At the time I just thought, well, I’m really busy. [...]
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Why the Bad Mood Yesterday?
Jul
25
, 2009
My mood went really dark yesterday. By the end of the day I was left puzzling over what went wrong inside my head, or emotions, or whatever to cause all that blah. So I went over [...]
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Shapeshifter questions and a writing question answered
Jul
24
, 2009
Questions from Forum, Twitter, Face Book, and My Space: 1. How does Mowgli Syndrome work? This was first mentioned in DANSE MACABRE, but for those who are not that far in the [...]
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And yet . . .
Jul
23
, 2009
Things that people don’t tell you about tattoos: 1. They hurt after you get them not just during. 2. They will eventually start to itch like crazy, and you must not scratch [...]
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No battle plan survives . . .
Jul
22
, 2009
We were supposed to go to the gym tonight, but 7:30 came and we were not even close to ready to leave, so we called it. We got dinner and were going to try to see Harry Potter, [...]
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