Author: Liz
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New York in October – mildly incoherent, belated post
At the beginning of October I went to New York for a week. I stayed with my American doppleganger and marvelous food godess Liz for the first half and in a hotel in Wall Street while attending Comicon for Inception Strategies for the second half. I failed to go into any art galleries or see many of the…
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Spirit Mountain Community Fund
I want to write a blog post about my adventures in New York, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get photos off my iPhone! When I am more technically savvy and a little less tired I shall try. But, I am excited to share with you Spirit Mountain Community…
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This is what 41,000 words looks like
I continue to work on my novel. Half my strategy seems to be sidling up to it and pretending I’m not writing it. I scribble something on the whiteboard, but that’s not really writing it – I’m just putting down thoughts. Then I type it up on my computer, but that’s not really writing it…
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New York
I’ll be attending New York Comicon! Ah New York, place of dreams. One of my clients, Inception Strategies, has a booth and I’ll be doing portfolio reviews. Inception Strategies has been going through a few changes in recent times with new people coming on to the editorial team and working on more projects than ever.…
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The books beside my bed
Before moving to Seattle a few months ago we had 2 pieces of furniture in America, a tiny Ikea coffee table and a set of drawers we picked up at a yard sale. We now have many things, a couch, a chair, a soda stream machine, an espresso machine, a good mattress, all the essentials….…
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Glasses, glasses, glasses!
Hooray hooray, my glasses arrived. What is wrong with my current glasses you might well ask. Well, I let you decide for yourself. Last time my glasses broke in the act of folishly cleaning them with a soft cloth(Oh no melon, my glasses broke) I just couldn’t wait for new glasses and shelled out $50…
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Back Stage at the Novel House
I’ve been making good progress on my novel (working title “The Scent of Memory”) recently and here is my secret weapon. (there is also a secondary whiteboard stuck to the cupboard door in the bedroom) I am able to pace, have random ideas and scrawl them on a wall without any inconvenient getting out a…
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The Pleasure of Analytics
Now that I’m posting more regularly I have the heart to check out my website on Google Analytics. The list of search terms lead to my website is always interesting. The prize for best search term is… life detangle blog -hair -pigeon -sun -necklaces Oh internet you are a strange strange creature. I mean really?…
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Daily Science Fiction has excellent taste
Daily Science Fiction, a new digital science fiction magazine, clearly has good taste because they’ve purchased stories from fellow Portlandian writer pals, Mary Robinette Kowal and David Levine. And now they have bought a story from me! Ok, ok, I’m not a Portlandian anymore, I live in Seattle, but I wrote this story while I…
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Yup, the Clarion Blog Archive has been updated again
Something Old and two lots of Something New… Class of ’94 & Class of 2010 https://lizargall.com/2009/03/clarion-blogs/ Now for the borrowed and the blue (and remember Clarion grads are a bit like Brides, it takes at least three years for us to stop talking about it and showing photos to everyone!)