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Whether you choose to call it a “roundtable” or a “workshop,” the results are the same – you and a group of other like-minded individuals take a look at each others’ writing and offer criticism in the hopes of improving everyone’s writing. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, and sometimes it degenerates into a clusterf***…
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First, Happy Independence Day to my readers in the USA! Hope you all have a fantastic time at your cookouts, family gatherings, fireworks, and all the fantastic fun July 4th entails! Here we are again, at the end of another term at SNHU. This term I tackled “Speculative Fiction I” and “The Publishing Ecosystem”. I…
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Happy Sunday, everyone! Here in the US, and in West Virginia, today is Father’s Day, and it’s also West Virginia Day, so were celebrating double today. I managed to marry a fantastic man who is also a fantastic father to our son. So, to my sweet hubs Chris, I hope you have a fantastic Father’s…
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Now that life’s a little more calm at Marcum Manor, we can get back to the regular grind of things. School, work, home – lather, rinse, repeat. Between wrangling assignments, wrangling co-workers, and wrangling family members (both of the un-fuzzy and fuzzy variety), I stay pretty exhausted most of the time. That’s okay, though. How…
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We spent the last two days in Huntington, WV at the Huntington Comic and Toy Convention. This is the first larger comicon to happen in Huntington (I think they’ve had a few in Morgantown in the past few years, but seeing as how that’s on the other end of the state from me, I don’t…
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This week, we have an abbreviated post because it’s been another busy week at Marcum Manor – we’ve had schoolwork and a birthday, and I worked 3 day this week, too! So, without further adieu.. The reason this post is brought to you by the letter “B” is that my son turned 19 on May…
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It’s been a pretty good and pretty productive week here at Marcum Manor. I’ve mad some significant progress on The Loneborn (I’m up over 7,000 words! Yippee!), I managed to not just get my schoolwork done but done early, AND we’ve got my son’s birthday weekend celebration planned and in place for next weekend! I’m…
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Here we are again, at the end of the first week of my 4th term in pursuit of my MFA in creative writing. I’m taking two classes this term – “Speculative Fiction I” and “The Publishing Ecosystem.” I think that of the two, I’m going to enjoy Spec Fic I quite a bit more than…
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First – I’d like to wish a HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY to all you moms out there – you guys are the real superheroes of the world. Whether your kids are sitting by your side this morning or somewhere out in the world, you guys rock, and even if no one else tells you today, I…