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7-7-7

A writing buddy of mine posted this “challenge”. It’s the 7-7-7 something or other. Blah, blah, blah. Well, I’ve been lax on the whole blogging thing for the past few weeks, so I figured I would do it.Take the 77th page of the current novel (I’m going with season, because that’s what I’m working on…should

Almost Died…

Really. I did! You see, Saturday I went to sparring class at the dojo. The usual line-up of ruffians was there. Nothing terribly interesting, just the regular sparring goodness that is Saturday’s class. In preparation for tournament in a few weeks, Sensei had us all judging the point sparring. I think he gets sick of

Once again, I was reading in Dwight Swain’s Techniques of the Selling Writer, and I came across a bit about writing that I’m not sure I understood before. I’m always trying to figure out when to pour on the words and when I can skimp. When is it appropriate to be verbose, and when should

Emergency Preparedness?

After the insane, hurricane force winds we got here on the north end of the Salt Lake valley a few months ago, a lot of people have been talking about being more prepared for natural disasters. Or human disasters. Or the zombie apocalypse. Or some idiot in a semi-truck taking out the power station. Or