The Velvet Zebra

Author: The Velvet Zebra

  • dammit, jim!

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    I hate when this happens – I am mere chapters away from The End in my current novel, slowing down a bit because I start to feel funny around this time, every time – and then it happens. There I am, in the bathroom, minding my own business and contemplating how this next chapter needs…

  • are all writers bipolar?

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    Yesterday I was flying high – enjoying discussions about the future of Trunk Novels, brainstorming ideas for marketing and sponsorships that would bring in much needed revenue to promote and help place Trunk Novels in bookstores and mainstream online retailers. Feeling generally rosy and positive about the future. Today, as I keep working on my…

  • World crashing down around you?

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    The state of the economy got you down? Have your stocks plummeted?  Is your savings worthless?  Were you fool enough to think you could charge your way through life, and now you can’t even figure out which bank holds all your loans? The President wanted to own Wallstreet, but Congress said “No.”  Now what?  Is…

  • here’s a thought

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    Why don’t they just kill John Conner? Okay, I’m not a fan – I don’t watch the show – but last night I was too busy to do anything about it, and that Terminator show about Sarah Connor came on the TV, so while I was busy, I watched some of it. I hate it…

  • was that ‘yes’ on #1, or ‘no’ to destroy the russians?

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    I just love this business. The other day I was looking over my database, checking to see how many agents I’d queried for Ether, how many had responded and how many I had left to try. I’m running at about fifty percent – queried vs responded, and had four left to try. So I double…

  • Greed.

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    I saw on the Nightly news the other day how people are finding ways to “walk away” from one house while buying a new one. It’s called Buy and Bail, and here’s how it works: You own a house that you borrowed $365,000 to buy, but in today’s market, the house is worth only $219,000…

  • if you need me next week

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    I’ll be here for a few days, at Kalaloch Beach, probably NOT writing as I walk the beach and gaze at the sunsets. Then I’ll be here, in the Hoh Rainforest for a couple of days, most likely NOT writing as I wander through forests of moss and gaze at wild herds of elk (and…

  • don’t you hate it when

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    You hear one of your cats making play-noises in the kitchen, then a little while later you happen to go into the kitchen and find said cat sitting and staring intently at that little space between your counter and your stove? I know we don’t have mice, although one could have fit in that space,…

  • people say the strangest things

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    In case you’ve been wondering if I’ve fallen off the world or anything, for a little while, I did! Actually, August is my busy month, because for one long, 3-day weekend in August, my sister and I “take our act on the road.” In that, we sell our lapidary work at an art show, in…

  • feel the burn!

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    I’ve discovered something about myself — When pushed, or rather “egged on” – I’m capable of writing 5,000 words a day. No kidding. I’ve been averaging somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 a day, but actually pushed close to 6k one day.  It’s exhausting, because they have to be not just good words, but great words.…