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Deborah Anderson
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Jan 11
Connected
I’m afraid Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter distracted me from my blog and website. It’s so easy to tap out a couple words, or post a quick snapshot from the smartphone, that it’s even easier to neglect something that requires logging in and… thinking. And I’m thinking that needs to change. At the Surrey International Writer’s Conference …
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Jan 04
And then there are grandmas.
There are grandmas. And then there are grandmas. My maternal grandmother was of the latter variety. Soft in all the right places, gentle, quiet, she was the rock of the family. I loved her dearly. To me, she was Mum-mum, my name for her from the time I was toddler and she used to look …
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Aug 18
Little Man
I held my firstborn grandchild for the first time this week. It was surreal. Looking into his face, I saw my firstborn son, and I was once more an over-joyed–and terrified–new mother. Tiny fingers. Tiny toes. Tiny, but strong nose and chin hinting at the strong-willed, and capable man he would become. Silky smooth skin …
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Aug 08
Flour, butter, sugar…
One of the most powerful—and protective—tools humans possess is their ability to smell. That sickly-sweet odor that warns you not to eat decomposing meat? The musky warm scent that inspires you to nibble your husband’s neck resulting in, less than a year later, the delicate milky-baby scent that compels you to nurture your newborn? Wood …
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Jul 26
Best laid plans…
My plan today was to tidy the house and dive into WIP edits; after a full weekend helping husband with roof-related project following a couple of days caring for my nieces, I was eager to catch up on writing-related work. Then hubs needed help with morning errands. We made it home shortly before noon. Still …
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Jul 06
Website woes and wins!
What’s a writer to do when she ships WIPs to Beta-readers? Update, or in my case, build an entirely new website. My old website was on Weebly. But I purchased Managed WordPress and a dot com address through a different provider, so… Unable to port my Weebly site (easily in a way I could manage …
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Apr 23
Get it done…
Ranching is hard business. The heroine in my first novel learns this, as did I first hand, on my aunt and uncle’s ranch they bought from her parents. And hard as I thought it was when I visited as a child, or later as an adult, it was so much harder in my grandmother’s time. …
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Apr 13
Novels: A Thrifty Way to Travel
Hubs wanted to take me on a trip this year to the one place I have always wanted to visit: Britain. But Paris happened. And more recently, Brussels. Paris motivated me to nix his travel plans. Brussels reinforced my decision to stay on home turf as solid. But that does not mean I cannot travel …
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Mar 23
Bear up, and Write
Today Belgium. A few months ago, Paris. Almost fifteen years ago, 9/11…it is sickening. And damn near paralytic. In the aftermath of 9/11 I was emotionally paralyzed. I slipped into a writing slump, unable to focus on my frivolous hobby when others suffered so. Writing had suddenly become…inconsequential, and selfish in the face of incomprehensible …
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Mar 09
The End
Popping my head up out of my writing hole *blink, blink* to wave hello *waves* and confirm I am yet of this world. When I am not lost in a world of my own creation, which is exactly where I have been the last few months. . Since October I have spent a lot of …
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