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shy oyster: September 2009
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Thursday, September 24, 2009. I Live Over There. There are times when a writer just plain has to fess up to her darker side. When what is real burns painfully in your gut like a blazing fire that won't go out. When the ordinary is swept aside by the deep urge to confess and be made clean. This, dear reader, is one of those times. I know, I know . . . Many will shout, "Stop! Think of what you are doing! Let what happens in your psyche stay in your psyche! I have sometimes believed I am a writer because ch...
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shy oyster: October 2009
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Sunday, October 25, 2009. Note: I never posted the following post, which I wrote in October, so I'm posting it now, in November. (Post, posting, posted.). I am in a twisted sort of place of late as a writer. No publication dates before me, though I do have hope. (Springs eternal, etc.) Wrestling with a new manuscript that still needs substantial work. So, no glitter, no glory. I believe in the future writers like me will become extinct, because we are not chirpy. In the interest of writing about somethin...
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shy oyster: And They're Off and
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Saturday, July 28, 2012. And They're Off and. Running their blog . . . This is about the Olympics, which started yesterday. You'll just have to wait a minute for it to get here. I think I've finally realized that writing a blog is a way for a writer, who appears to be completely dead when you poke her with a stick, to continue writing. Not a bad deal, actually. Botox for the brain. A quickie "see, I'm still here! Brainlift. A quick trip to the Keyboard Clinic of Restorative Beauty. Why they feel the need...
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shy oyster: ALA Your Way to Success!
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Sunday, June 13, 2010. ALA Your Way to Success! In a couple of weeks, ALA, The American Library Association, is coming to Washington, D. C. for their Annual Wowser Summer Convention. It's not held here every year, so since it is fairly close to where I live and doesn't require a naked airport x-ray to get to, I am going to go. I don't know. I never know! Hmm [Taps fingers on counter.]. I think it's the crowd. Turned into a vampire at that point (probably, given the odds) I will restrain myself , keeping ...
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shy oyster: Disconcerting
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Saturday, July 14, 2012. But this post isn't about lovelorn digitals. It's about online solitaire, a mighty weapon in the fight against anxiety. Online solitaire doesn't love me, it fact it disdains me. And yet I return to its cold embrace and like a black hole it sucks up my fears. For a while. Write my damn books already! I think so.). All the freaking time. Like online. As in, when you first start, all black cards,. As in, when you first start, three freaking threes all at once,. I have to tell you, c...
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shy oyster: June 2010
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Sunday, June 13, 2010. ALA Your Way to Success! In a couple of weeks, ALA, The American Library Association, is coming to Washington, D. C. for their Annual Wowser Summer Convention. It's not held here every year, so since it is fairly close to where I live and doesn't require a naked airport x-ray to get to, I am going to go. I don't know. I never know! Hmm [Taps fingers on counter.]. I think it's the crowd. Turned into a vampire at that point (probably, given the odds) I will restrain myself , keeping ...
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shy oyster: Thank You, Letter Writer
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Sunday, May 6, 2012. Thank You, Letter Writer. Dear Letter Writer,. It was wonderful to hear your kind words about my writing. Thank you so much. I hope you visit my blog again to see this reply, as I was unable to email you directly. I had disconnected the email on my website because I was getting spammed to death. Perhaps I should reconsider. A Fast and Brutal Wing. Your observation is correct- I haven’t published a book since 2007, though of course I hope to publish again. But life goes up a...A Fast ...
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shy oyster: November 2010
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Saturday, November 6, 2010. I have scratched and clawed and screamed and shouted my way through two manuscripts, and am waiting to hear from trusted others if they fly or not. I am contemplating a new novel. (Though from a safe distance. It's shy and I don't want it to bolt.). Our culture, being noisy, apparently doesn't want quiet books- or so I hear- but I still want to write them. Now watch me write a book about a crazy, shrieking, dancing girl in love with mahem. Links to this post.
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shy oyster: June 2012
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Saturday, June 30, 2012. This past week my former editor, Deborah Brodie, died. She saw me through five books. Felt I had worth as a writer and provided the guidance I needed to shape my words into better stories. Her help was invaluable, and I was with her long enough to absorb a lot of her lessons. A lot, but not all. I will miss her wisdom keenly. And then she died. A big shock. And so, here I am again. On the blog I had largely abandonned. Remembering Deborah. That's as good a start as any.
