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Farewell Old Friend - The Importance of Backup

Did you ever have that thought? You know the one where you think, gee this pair of shoes is falling apart and I should buy a new pair. Except you don’t because you love those shoes, they are comfy. Then, without warning, they fall apart and now you have to find a new pair. You can substitute shoes for any item you may have had this thought for. Like maybe a car. You know, you need to buy one because your rust bucket is making another new noise, but you put it off or don’t have the money, etc. You’re driving along one day and next thing you know you’re limping the poor hunk of metal off the road as best you can and calling for a tow truck. I think you get the idea of what I’m saying here. This happened to me recently. About a year ago, I realized my laptop was getting some age on it, might be a good idea to get a new one. I mentioned it to a friend, who gave me a laptop that he bought used and didn’t need or want, or bother re-selling it. I turned it on a few times, but my current lapto...
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New Release - Faking it at Christmas

At last I have finished and released the 3rd story in the Holiday Wishes Series! I was so excited to finally do this story. Nothing like a short Christmas romance to get in the holiday spirit. So without further ado, I present Faking it at Christmas - A fake relationship, that of course always leads to more. Hope you enjoy reading it! MAKE A WISH UPON A SNOWFLAKE DURING THE HOLIDAYS AND IT MIGHT COME TRUE! Violet My boss has told me I have to attend the company Christmas party this year. My single male co-workers endlessly hit on me. I’ve no desire to date anymore, been there, done that, no thanks. I wish for a fake boyfriend for my party. After I make that wish, I run right into a hot guy, who also says he needs a fake girlfriend for the holidays. Like, what are the odds? These things don’t really happen. Now, if only I can keep my heart from doing its little flip-flops when I’m near this man, everything will be okay. Right? Liam I love my single life. No girlfriend in my fut...
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Going Back to the Past to Move on to the Future - More Course Correcting

I’m still trying to move forward with things and get stories written. When I wrote my last post, my little noodle brain was trying to figure things out. Sometimes I feel as though my noodle brain is just that - a pile of useless noodles. Ah, well, I love ramen noodles, so there’s that. One thing I thought of when trying to move forward was Christmas romance stories. It is that time of year again. When I originally conceived my Holiday Wishes series of stories way, way back, I had come up with four ideas. Her Secret Santa and The Gift of Holly were stories 1 and 2. Stories 3 and 4 didn’t get written because I’d run out of time after I finished The Gift of Holly. In late 2021 I attempted to write story 3, but alas, I couldn’t get it to come together like I’d hoped. Time slipped on by without me. In late 2022, I was determined to write and publish another story. I thought again of those unfinished Christmas stories, but I didn’t want to be tied to a tight deadline. This is when I wrote a...
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Course Correcting a Creative Slump

  I follow quite a few blogs, one or two of them I read daily. I also subscribe to some YouTube channels of content creators that I find interesting. I try not to watch those daily because, you know, YouTube has millions of cat videos. I shouldn’t have to say anymore on that.🐱 Recently, someone I follow on YouTube decided to do a 100 day challenge of posting videos. I found this challenge admirable and wondered if I should set some sort of writing challenge for myself. These kinds of things inspire me. Thirty days in, this YouTuber threw in the towel on the challenge. The YouTuber listed the reasons why and that he was not quitting YouTube, just the self-imposed challenge. He was going to try something else. I follow a blog by a professional writer who has set similar challenges with writing over the years. Many times he’s succeed, but a few times he has not. So why am I writing about this? Because these people show me I’m not alone. In the past, I have set goals, challenges, made...
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The Making of a Story - How 'Guard My Body' Came to be

This is the first story that I’ve published that resulted from a writing prompt. So I thought I’d write a post about how this story came to be, in case it is of interest to others. I guess this is sort of a behind-the-scenes type thing like they do with movies and TV shows. When I’d finished drafting Beach Fling with the Biker , I wasn’t sure what I was going to tackle next. I needed something to keep me productive, so I wasn’t six months or more between releases again. I have used the editor on the Reedsy website for the past few stories to format my manuscripts into ePub to upload to Amazon. It made that part of the process quicker and easier for me. One day when I was on their site, I noticed they had a thing called a Plot Generator. So I thought I would indulge in a bit of creative procrastination to see what it did. A Writing Prompt to Get Me Going First off, their Plot Generator is not some AI thing. As of now, I’m staying away from AI for my creative writing. There is far too m...
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New Release - Guard My Body

Another new release! I'd hoped to have this one out by the end of June, but it just didn't work out that way. Hot weather set in, which always makes me a bit lethargic. Then there was a holiday. While I didn't have big plans for the Fourth of July this year, I took it a little easy and enjoyed the holiday. With that said, I present to you: Guard My Body - A Short Bodyguard Romance I had a lot of fun writing this one. I can only hope you have just as much fun reading it. Enjoy!   A dive bar, a broken elevator, and a man hotter than any fantasy. What could go wrong? Madison Being a writer is not at all what I thought it would be. Writing about crappy restaurants and dumpy hotels is not the life I imagined. Then again, I get stuck in a hotel elevator with a man hotter than sin. Who turns out to be interested in me. Except, it is just my luck to lose him as quickly as I found him. Will I ever see him again? Considering my bad luck, I doubt it. Jackson One unpleasant job ...
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Cover Reveal - Guard My Body

Whao! Would you look at this, a cover reveal. Obviously I've been working on another story. The title is Guard My Body. It's about a hot protective bodyguard and a writer. Because who doesn't want a hot bodyguard as a book-boyfriend? Writing this story has been a lot of fun, I'm about to enter the final stages of it and hope to have this story out by the end of this month. When I was finishing up Beach Fling with a Biker I wasn't sure what I was going to write next. The past few stories I've used the Reedsy editor to format my manuscripts to upload to Amazon. It has saved me a lot of time with formatting. I noticed on the Reedsy site they have a plot generator. So I decided to check it out. It spit out an idea about a bodyguard, which intrigued me, but I also dismissed it. However, the concept wouldn't leave me alone, so I went back and started generating plots involving a bodyguard as my hero. And no, their little plot generator is not some AI thing. From...
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