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Waaaaah
I mentioned a dragon shifter idea I'd been working on lately. It was an idea I came up with last year, but in the last month or so I've been playing with the concept, developing the world-building,...
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Writing Progress
How did 10 days go by already since my last post?Got a lot of balls in the air obviously, but the writing is moving along. The outline for the Dragon book is done,done,done! I think I wrote 9 pages...
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I went from Zig to Zag
I could've swore I posted my change of plans here or on my author Facebook page (btw, have you liked my author page over there? www.facebook.com/VanessaJayeAuthor It's not superbusy, so you won't be...
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Consider, It Might Be Better Not To Know
I just skimmed a review of a book where someone noted in the comments that overall they loved the series, even though they felt a little lost at times. The comment struck me because the reviewer noted...
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Merry Christmas
It was a close one here at Casa Jaye. Because of the recent ice storm that sweep through southern ontario last Saturday, we were without heat and electricity since Sunday evening right up to this...
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Six Months Later....
Has it been that long?! Crap. So I'm trying something new, starting today. I checked my email and all my online/social sites this morning. And that's it.I won't check in online again till this evening...
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Old Home Week in My Reading
Series are really big right now. Many readers love them to bits—they’ve invested time, emotion and dollars, and want to revisit the world/setting and cast of characters that the author created.I’m not...
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My dragons be draggin'
My dragons be draggin’Verdict on the post title? #lame. lol. WhatevsSo some writing updates for ya, I'm kinda stuck on whether to do a prologue or not with the dragon book. At this point the single...
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That voice
Just had a weird erotic moment where a commercial came on with Sam Elliot doing the voice-over, while Michael McDonald was cooning on the iPod and I had just came across a picture of Benedict...
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100 in 100
Quick post here before I dash off to work.Work has been Very Demanding. Last week was all 10-12hr days because I was covering for someone on vacation as well as doing my own work. Prior to that, I had...
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Celebrate 10 yrs of Writing with Melissa Blue's Giveaway extravaganza
My fellow Southern Fried Chica' blog-mate, Melissa Blue aka Sofia Harper is celebrating 10 years of writing! And she's holding a 1 week extravaganza of give-aways from a great group of authors-- Sept 7...
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Buzzed-off
After yesterday's 10hr sleep-a-thon/end of week exhaustion cash, my day started off great. Woke up early--cleaned the bathroom, kitchen, washed/deep-conditioned my hair, and did a facial, and started...
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Generation Gap
Interesting generational thing. I grew up with TV. It was the babysitter and source of excitement. The radio too, but as I shared more of my personal space with family/significant others, the...
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Son's Bellyachin' and Hurtin' songs
Meanwhile at Casa Jaye this morning....I changed the channel from the all news station to a country music video show, and son looks up from his laptop and starts bellyaching.Son-- "Ma! What is this? I...
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Best Wishes for the Holidays
This year has been quite the rollercoaster ride with some of the lowest/darkest moments of my life. But in the end, as the year draws to a close and on the eve of this very special holiday, and I can...
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Writing the Dragon book
Last night I cut about a page from the Dragon book. It was a scene that I was totally stuck on and couldn't move forward, but I knew it was a scene I wanted represented in the book, so it wasn't that I...
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Writing....
Got my headphones on, got my trusty egg timer, gonna do 30 min sprints.Updates in comment thread
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More Progress
This morning I woke up 10 mins after the latest time I should have left my house! And there I was last night congratulating myself on seeming to manage my insomnia a bit better and getting to bed...
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Long time no update....
So, uhm... yeah.... I'm so bad at this. Well, not bad, just kinda don't have the time; or I've been too tired to make the time for blog updates. Same excuse I've had all year... Part of me says I...
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4 months later….Yup. It’s been 4 months since my last blog post, and the reason for that is the same as before: day job. 2015 was a total write-off shit-show for me. I pretty-much did nothing but...
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What's New
Not much. Lol.Okay, not totally true. I’m still working on the whole work life balance thing. Particularly establishing certain ways to function around the day job-- setting boundaries, developing...
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A small excerpt
We’re pretty much knee deep into the busy season at the day job for the past month. And it’s only going to get busier June/July/August and start to slow in September/October. I’m easily doing 10 -12hr...
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Happy New Year!
Boy I suck at this update stuff. :P Although, looking at the date stamp of my last post, it was just around the the time our busy season started to really ramp up at work. Plus add in a system glitch...
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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and All That Good Stuff
I'm cutting a little close here. Meant to post a longer catch up type message, but the most important point is to wish you all an Awesome Christmas and Happy New Year. I'll post the longer note in a...
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