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Why?!

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"Mood" Pictures

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Playing around with some pictures for When Silverfish Dance to pass on to an artist (playing with cover art) and here's what I came up with: My ideals of Barry and Morgan And some story elements! Have I mentioned the story takes place in '73-'74?

"When Silverfish" Won't Download

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I finished my edits on When Silverfish Dance . Yeah, me. And then I tried to PDF it. I've been using Google Docs on the recommendation of a friend (who isn't a writer, but she edits her granddaughter's college papers for her). I still write with Microsoft Word, but my version is old and I found it easier to edit on Docs. But now that it's written and edited, I'm having trouble transferring it elsewhere.  So that's a problem. I planned on starting "Cracks" edits this weekend--and I'm still going to-- but maybe I need to find a different writing program. Any suggestions?

Happy New Year!

Ah, a new year. A time to start fresh. Forget the goals we didn't hit last year (because December was a bust--I didn't hit a single goal), and make new ones for this year. I'm not going to get into 2016 too much here--that's more for my personal blog ( Bratwurst Times )-- but I think it was a challenging year for many of us. I will say, March was the high point when I got to spend time with my BFF in Florida and then traveled to Chicago to see An Evening With Noel Fielding and met some of my Tumblr friends. But since this is my writing blog, I'm going to talk about my high points on the writing front. I started and finished  When Silverfish Dance and actually sent it to a few publishers. Then I decided to do another edit (which I am currently finishing up) and I'm hoping to start shopping it out again within the next couple of weeks. I started writing Like Cracks in the Sidewalk  in the second half of the year and finished it during the NaNo challenge. It nee