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Beware the Weredog by J J Dare
Along with countless others, I love a good scare and this time of the year is perfect for terror and thrills. Halloween is right around the corner. Ghosts, goblins and zombies reign over the land....
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Have a Very Descriptive Thanksgiving by J J Dare
In honor of writers everywhere, this year’s Thanksgiving at my house is filled with adjectives. My holiday wish is for everyone to enjoy the sights and smells of Thanksgiving as much as I and my family...
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Balancing on the Beam by J J Dare
These past few days have been slightly more chaotic than my usual hectic weekends (and weekdays). I’m juggling sharing a car with my daughter while her car is out of commission for the next few weeks,...
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A Gentler Year by J J Dare
The main characters in my writings tend to be reprobates, sinners with tarnished wings, saints with broken crosses, unrepentant narcissists, manipulators and malcontents. These are the bad boys and...
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When the Ink Runs Dry by J J Dare
My laptop is terminally ill. It’s suffering from a 7-beep sickness and will only turn on one time out of twenty. Dell explains this as a CPU failure. Investigating further, I discovered it’s not so...
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Perpetual Motion by J J Dare
The perpetual motion of life is an interesting state of being. Even when we’re inert, such as in couch potato mode, life doesn’t stop revolving around us. Here’s how my life has twirled lately: At home...
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Waking the Sleeping Writer by J J Dare
“When are you going to start writing again?” a friend asked me a few weeks ago. The question didn’t catch me by surprise since I am well aware I’ve been neglecting my written creations for the past few...
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Bad Wasps by J J Dare
We’re getting close to the end of Rubicon Ranch: Necropieces, the second book in the Rubicon series. As I wrap up my deeply flawed characters, I have time to reflect on their behavior. They’re bad. Bad...
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Five Easy Body Pieces by J J Dare
“Dismembering the human body in five steps” is one of many terms I use when researching books I’m writing. One day I can see this getting me into trouble. While “the amount of blood in a human body”...
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The Day of the Trickster by J J Dare
The first day in April is a silly day. If this day had a spokesperson, it would be Monty Python’s Flying Circus (“Nudge, nudge! Know what I mean? Say no more! A nod’s as good as a wink to a blind bat,...
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Broken Finger Syndrome by J J Dare
Better than a palm smack to the forehead, I’ve come up with a surefire way to prevent future writing embarrassments and shameful literary episodes. It’s called Broken Finger Syndrome. Posters, pens and...
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Jumping Trains by J J Dare
“How many trains have you jumped in your life?” These nine little words gave me pause. For the past week, I’ve been alternately obsessing, compulsing and nonchalanting. Yeah, I know, I’m adding my own...
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Floating in the Sea of Dreams by J J Dare
My inspirational muse is very fickle lately. While she is dropping story plots left and right, the actual nitty-gritty business of writing these tales keeps skittering away from me. Mean muse. Of...
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Highfalutin Flying Pigs by J J Dare
When friends and acquaintances find out I’m a writer, a few of them want to pick my brain about something they’ve either written or want to write. For the most part, I don’t mind. I mean, after all,...
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Three by J J Dare
Three is a nervous number. It’s not part of a pair nor is it part of two couples. Three is that in-between number sitting at the table twiddling its thumbs awkwardly while trying not to feel the odd...
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It’s Raining Words by J J Dare
I like rain and gloomy weather. My middle child and I were discussing where we’d like to live in the future. The upper west coast is definitely an option, particularly Oregon and Washington, and the...
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This In-between Life by J J Dare
A new chapter is starting in my life. My youngest, The Baby, is moving a gazillion miles away. While it’s actually only five hundred miles away, it feels like a gazillion. She’s never been more than...
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One Hundred Grains of Sand
Reality and dreams collide all the time. The day of my daughter’s beach wedding was rainy and cold. Instead of exchanging vows with bare feet wiggling in warm sand, she and her significant other stood...
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March 29th is Festival of Smoke and Mirrors Day
Celebrate Festival of Smoke and Mirrors Day! Grab a book from Second Wind Publishing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Spark of Heavenly Fire by Pat Bertram The Red Death has quarantined...
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The Good, The Bad, and The Useless
Just like gossip, give a story to five different editors and you might get back five different edited copies. When this happens to me, I try to find a common theme in the critiques. In one instance...
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