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Dealing with Fantasy of a Different Sort (or I would reject your reality to substitute my own, except my fantasy is nicer than my reality...)

LaShawn wrote 4 months ago: So last week our dryer broke down. Just stopped working on us. You would think that would sadden me, … more →

Tags: writing, Writing. Musings, Where I Write, Writing Life

Things I Love

katycooper wrote 6 months ago: I love working in Boston — you never know what you’re going to see. This morning, I saw … more →

Tags: musings, Work in progress, writing, Commute

And another one bites the dust...

LaShawn wrote 11 months ago: Realms of Fantasy will be ending with the April 2009 issue… I was looking forward to the day w … more →

Tags: Fantasy Writings, writing, Realms of Fantasy, Entertainment, Fantasy, Fiction, Reading, Short Stories

The Passing of a Great Anthology; No more Year's Best Fantasy & Horror5 comments

LaShawn wrote 11 months ago: In the past, I’ve done reviews for the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror that you can find … more →

Tags: Fantasy Writings, Genre: Fantasy, writing, "The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror", anthology, ellen datlow, Fantasy, publishing news, Terry Windling

Post the First4 comments

krystalmage wrote 12 months ago: I am always, unfailingly, unswervingly impressed with people who know exactly what they want to writ … more →

Tags: Stream of Consciousness, writing, Humor, imPRessions, Ideas!, Thoughts, School, reminiscing, Memories

What to Write...

pillywiggin wrote 1 year ago: The obvious answer to this question would be DEALING WITH DEMONS, of course.  Lots of work to do on … more →

Tags: writing rant

Doing the Clean/Write Juggle (or how to be a part-time writer and a part-time worker mom and still have clean dishes to eat on...)1 comment

LaShawn wrote 1 year ago: I’ve just realized that it’s been a long time since I wrote any personal posts. Not that … more →

Tags: Mommy Blues, Cleaning, housework, mom, Personal, writing

The Lull between the End of a Project and the Beginning of a New Project1 comment

Shon wrote 1 year ago: Well, since I finished my screenplay about five days ago, I’ve been very sluggish. It’s … more →

Tags: the writing life, writing, Inspiration, Life, lulls, New Projects

Fact Checking? We don't need no stinking fact checking!1 comment

LaShawn wrote 2 years ago: Oh, boy! My first rant! Normally, I like to keep the Cafe rant free, but this really got to me, and … more →

Tags: writing, Writing Rants

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: Weeping of the Willows, writing, Writing Conferences, Kaleidotrope, Midwest Literary Festival, The Muse, The Muse Online Writer's Conference

Another rejection! Hooray! (or, lesson on dialect)

LaShawn wrote 2 years ago: On Thursday, we got ourselves a pretty wild storm, wild enough to knock down a tree branch. As thund … more →

Tags: writing

Overflow and Underflow (or I trade you a tomato for a writing idea)

LaShawn wrote 2 years ago: It’s been raining a lot these past few days. It means that I don’t have to water my … more →

Tags: General Musings, writing

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: Weeping of the Willows

Outlook Tasks is my crack (and organizes it well, too...)

LaShawn wrote 2 years ago: Being April 1st, I had a joke all set up for today. Had it all planned–was going to turn the C … more →

Tags: Computer Stuff, microsoft software

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: Weeping of the Willows

My First week as a "Full-time" Writer2 comments

LaShawn wrote 2 years ago: Got a call from a friend who asked me, “Hey, I heard you put Daniel in daycare to focus more o … more →


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