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Monthly Archives: January, 2013

Checking in!

I’m just checking in to let everyone know I haven’t forgotten you. 🙂 I had a sneezing attack three days ago, (40-50 in an hour) and burst a blood vessel in my left eye, so I have been trying to limit my staring at the computer screen. I am still working on my POV challenge …

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Liebster Award!

I was nominated by  Vanessa Wester for the Liebster Blog Award 200, an award designed for upcoming bloggers that have less than 200 followers and I figured I better get it posted, because I am getting close to that 200 mark. I have 196 of the most awesome blog followers a person could ask for and I thank …

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Shine On Award!

I received the Shine On Award from not one, but two very Awesome Bloggers! The wonderful and lovely Emily Guido and The lovely and wonderful Ella Medler! Now they have told me there are no rules, and I thought, well I could interview myself like Emily did, or I could tell you three things about me, like …

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Three Points Of View Challenge

In my last post I told you about the local writer’s group and a challenge. Anyway, I am using the prompt that the writer’s group passed out at the last meeting for my challenge. If you don’t remember what the challenge was, it is to write a short story or paragraph using the three different …

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A Challenge and the Local Writer’s Group

I’m so proud of myself, I finally got up the courage to go check out the writer’s group at my local library. I know, most of you are thinking, “But you are so outgoing, why would you need to get up courage to go?” Actually, when I meet people in person, I am very shy …

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7 Writer Challenge Pass On

7 Writer Challenge Pass On I was tagged by the wonderful author of , “The Adventures of Cecilia Spark”  for the 7 Writer Challenge. Thank you Ngaire! Stop by and check out her blog here: http://adventuresofceciliaspark.blogspot.com.es/ So here goes …This is the mission: Go to line 7 on either page 7 or page 77 of your manuscript and …

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Struggling To find My Place

Bored? Me, Bored? No, I have too much to do! And that’s probably my problem. I need to do, this, this, and this, but I want to do, this, this, and this! The problem with this is, I tell myself, “If you don’t do this, this, and this, you can’t do this, this, and this!” …

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Perplexed, Procrastinating, and Peeved!

This was originally supposed to be titled;  Wrapping up 2012, But the last couple of months of 2012 have found me,  Perplexed, Procrastinating, and Peeved at myself for procrastinating! Go figure. 🙂 So to wrap up 2012, I want to thank all of my wonderful followers and commentators! These were my top four (I was #1 …

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2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 7,400 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 12 years to get …

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