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Bundle of Joy
AJ’s working on a series of websites. She updated her personal site, and now she’s working on her author platform site again. This isn’t a new bundle of joy per say, but AJ’s retooling it so that it fits better with her current stack of things. I have no idea what any of that means…
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A Whole New World
AJ’s trying out lots of new things and I’m disappointed in the results. So I’m coming back to at least posting once a day for the week. We might give ourselves some leeway on the weekends. No worrying about posts then so maybe AJ can keep this going — all part of the morning routine…
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Two Wonderful Things
It’s Tuesday! Why does it matter? Today is my birthday! In 2022 I will be 30! OMG. Wow! For my birthday AJ made an image for me and Alex, of me and Alex out clubbing the first night we met in The Call of the Dragon. And the number two reason is AJ wants to…
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First Episode
The first episode of The Call of the Dragon will be dropping on Friday. Today you were supposed to get a post on Summer Time recipes, but AJ didn’t do the work, and currently dealing with a fever and not in the thinking capacity area to do the work. So today we are just going…
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Pride
It’s Pride Month. Normally I don’t go all out. AJ feels a bit like she’s just jumping on the bandwagon. But the subject is close to her heart. Somewhere along the journey of raising kids, AJ has accepted people love who they love. It’s not a bandwagon. While AJ is 100% an ally, she has…
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These are a few of my favorite things
Okay so yeah cheesy song but it’s the truth. Today is the start of a new way of doing things here on the blog and my other platforms. AJ is only going to dedicate one day a week to making sure I entertain you here. We aren’t limiting me to just my blog, I’ll be…
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AJ’s Author Platform
I know I’ve mentioned this several times. AJ is trying to build her author platform. AJ has a plan. And I get to be the spokesperson for the whole thing. Yay me! Right? Which means that things are going to change around here. The biggest note will be AJ will dedicate my blog time to…
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Bite Sized Monster Tales
I know I’ve said it before. AJ’s considering a podcast where I tell some stories. Well AJ’s actually getting pretty serious about it. And as a trial run she took the Christmas Drabble entitled “Breakfast” and made a quick New York Accent script from it. And practiced reading it several times out loud. Then we…
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The Spark
Every hero has an origin story. My mother was human. I was only half, and the day I sparked changed my whole life for better or for worse. AJ has been thinking about doing some stories to share with ‘paying’ customers. We could have done that with this one, but I think AJ would rather…
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Woot!
AJ hit 50K on the next book in the series. The Call of the Dragon is book 1. And is currently in Edit phase. Book 2 is called The Malum Convergence and is in the writing phase — about half way done. Today I’m writing for two reasons. Mostly because I want to touch Alex.…
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Nocnitsa
Sounds pretty cool eh? This is the name of a Slavic mythological creature that fits the bill of what taunts my nights. AJ’s gone through many sites and many iterations of what the name of the nightmare was called and settled on nightmare until this one. This one interpretation is perfect! Nocnitsa, also known as…
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Story Craft Cafe
I’ve said it before AJ now works for Dabble. Today they launched their brand new community Story Craft Cafe. If you are a writer you should go check it out. Even if you don’t use Dabble software this is a new community just for you. (I almost said ya’ll… *glares at AJ*) All this month…
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The Venatori
We have some pretty in depth questions from our friends over at Dabble, so AJ decided since I’m being vocal about writing, I’ll fill out yet another character form. We’ll do one at a time for now as we see things going. Camp is coming this Friday and AJ plans on a very good first…
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abcdefu
AJ is absolutely in love with the first version I’m about to post. It hit her Daily Mix #1 (which is typically based off of Three Days Grace). It’s absolutely angry and we love it. But what we didn’t know was that it was a cover! So here is the original too!
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Stand By Me
Anyone who’s read any of the stories probably knows Alex and I do have a song that comes up every so often and has a special place in my heart. And here it is Acapella style:
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Focusing!
Sorry I’ve been awol. AJ’s been focusing on editing this week. And for the days I’ve missed. It’s not that I have nothing to say, just AJ got busy and forgot. Thus the focused bits lol. But today AJ received an email from WordPress that has a new monthly word prompt in it. They maybe…
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The Malum Convergence
So yesterday I made a quip about AJ making a lame book cover. It’s hardly lame. It isn’t the one we’ll use in the end, but we really like the look. For the final look AJ will probably a rendition of me on the cover and add some magic. But for NaNo it’s really cool.…
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Time for Camp
So it’s nearly April. Camp NaNoWriMo April is right around the corner. AJ has to plot out the next story in the book. I know I’ve discussed a bit about it before. But it’s an all new book. But not an all new concept. We won’t be pulling work from the previous stuff. The outline…
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Editing
Soon it will be time for AJ to run through the descriptions and dialog tags and do some good editing of the words actually and not just the syntax of stuff. To help with that AJ will likely use a few cool dictionaries. The emotions dictionary is pretty cool. The series linked from amazon is…
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Not Today
There was no editing factory today. It’s the Friday after a Grey’s Anatomy cross-over event with Station 19 where AJ had to watch Station 19 cause yeah someone went over a cliff in the last Grey’s episode and in Station 19 they saved him — had to watch that. It’s not always something AJ has…
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Dropped the Football
Sorry. No idea how to use today’s word — football. I could beat it like a dead horse. More cliches? No? Alright. AJ hasn’t edited since Monday, hopefully we’ll take a crack at it here in a bit. AJ’s playing insanity mode on ME 2 and keeps dying so is probably on a break till…
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