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Don't have a lot of free time, so not here a whole lot anymore. If I delete your pieces from my collections, no offense.  Just too huge and unmanageable. Might post a few things at some point, who knows.

I have been doing some writing, but I'm also starting to make some attempts at getting published.  Therefore, if you want to see what I'm up to you'll have to look at scraps.  That's where I'm putting my first drafts while I work on stuff. I would really appreciate critique and suggestions for improvements on my scrapped stuff, as the only reason I'm putting it up here is to get help in editing and finishing. I'm also working on my novel, but it's tough going.  I have major crises going on both in my job and in my personal life -- too many and too depressing to detail here.  Very draining.  I'm off work tomorrow and my hubby has brought wor

I wrote my first novel last year for NaNoWriMo, and have been beating my head against a wall all year to try and make the damn thing not suck. Recently, I read Stephen King's On Writing and it made a lot of sense to me.  I've since come to the conclusion that the book sucks because I wrote it wrong.  I'd never written a novel before, so I listened to advice and made outlines and character studies and yada yada yada.  The result is inescapably, unsalvageably bad stuff. So I've scrapped it. There was one scene out of the whole ugly mess that I do love and will try to salvage enough to post here.  Possibly as a short story, possibly just as i