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Update on Willow (or Running the race as slow as I can...)1 comment

LaShawn wrote 3 weeks ago: My friend Nicole recently ran the Chicago marathon. You can read her story, "Chasing Garbage Tr … more →

Tags: writing, Writing. Musings, Chicago Marathon, NaNoWriMo, Writing Advice, Writing Goals, Writing Life

Short Story & Willow Update (or why the best bar stories never get published...)2 comments

LaShawn wrote 2 months ago: Last week our home routine changed again. Daniel has started kindergarten. His transformation into a … more →

Tags: Short Stories, writing, Writing. Musings, Editing, Revising, Writing Goals, writing progress, Writing techniques

Weeping of the Willows update (actually, it's more of a non-update...)

LaShawn wrote 4 months ago: So this week is the last week of the boy’s summer school. Can’t believe six weeks went b … more →

Tags: LaShawn's Work, writing, Writing Life

Status Update on Willow2 comments

LaShawn wrote 6 months ago: It’s been about three months now since I started the second full rewrite of Willow. And today, … more →

Tags: writing, LaShawn's Work, Fantasy, Revisions, Writers of the Future, Status Update, Odyssey Podcast

Celebrating Black Future Month1 comment

LaShawn wrote 8 months ago: Remember Black History Month back in February? Yeah, I didn’t either. Sadly, my observance of … more →

Tags: African-American Issues, African-American fantasy, black fantasy, Wiscon, Black Identity, racefail09, Race, multiethnic issues, Race Discussion

Weekly Cafe update and a little Writing News

LaShawn wrote 8 months ago: Another bunch of links for you. I’m finding it easier to squeeze these kind of posts in betwee … more →

Tags: LaShawn's Work, Writing Conferences, Adventures in SciFi Publishing, Odyssey Con, Shaun Farrell, Wiscon, Work, Writers of the Future, writing

Writing Goals for 2009

LaShawn wrote 10 months ago: Yayyy! I get to start off 2009 by setting up my goals again. Hooray! Just think–around this ti … more →

Tags: LaShawn's Work, Short Stories, writing, 2009 resolutions, Goals, Personal, Resolutions

Readthrough of Willow Done (or Helllooooo, 2009!)

LaShawn wrote 11 months ago: Well, I’m back! Did you have a good Christmas holiday? I sure did. Lots of rest and relaxation … more →

Tags: LaShawn's Work, writing

LaShawn's Project Status Update (or working on my 5th final draft...)

LaShawn wrote 1 year ago: So right around yesterday as I recoved from a full day of hanging out at the Circle M farm by cookin … more →

Tags: LaShawn's Work, Short Stories, writing, NaNoWriMo, Writers of the Future, Writing Goals

Status update on Willow

LaShawn wrote 1 year ago: My desk is clean. The whole house is clean. The boy is currently watching Diego. I got some free tim … more →

Tags: LaShawn's Work, writing, Editing, Fantasy, Fiction, Novel, Revising, Work

Snip, snip here. Snip, snip, there. Trimming the branches of "Willow"

LaShawn wrote 2 years ago: I think I’m going to have to take my Willow Synopsis down. Last week marked the first edits of … more →

Tags: writing

October Scheduling (or time to get down to business...eventually...)2 comments

LaShawn wrote 2 years ago: October already, huh? It amazes me how time simultaneously crawls and speeds. When Kaleidotrope sent … more →

Tags: writing, Writing Conferences, Writing Blues, Kaleidotrope, Midwest Literary Festival, The Muse, The Muse Online Writer's Conference

You Just Finished Writing a Novel. Now what?1 comment

LaShawn wrote 2 years ago: It feels weird. When I sit at my computer at night, I automatically start to move the mouse towards … more →

Tags: Fun, writing

First Draft of Weeping of the Willows: DONE7 comments

LaShawn wrote 2 years ago: It is done. Finished. Kaput. At least, for book one, that is. I have finally finished my first book, … more →

One more chapter left

LaShawn wrote 2 years ago: I am already past the 444,000 word limit. Laundry is sitting in baskets all on bedroom floor. The bo … more →

Writing Burnout (Just one more word...Please?)4 comments

LaShawn wrote 2 years ago: April has been a bad month for Willow. Birthdays, trips to Michigan, snotty noses, other stories sud … more →

Tags: Writing Blues

"Full-time" Writer revisited (or Disciplined? Bwhahaha!)3 comments

LaShawn wrote 2 years ago: I’m writing this in response to my friend Chris’s comment at Write and Whine yesterday i … more →

Tags: writing

Them Word Count Blues3 comments

LaShawn wrote 2 years ago: I didn’t plan to mention the other thing that made writing hard for me over the past week, but … more →

Tags: Writing Blues

Willow Revised Word Count1 comment

LaShawn wrote 2 years ago: Last week was ‘return to work’ week for many folk, but after all the holidays and food a … more →


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