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Name: Madeline
Occupation: mild-mannered office slave by day, writer by night
Current Favorite Word: Catastrophe
Useless Fact: My pants have caught on fire twice in my life, through no fault of my own.Hot Instagram Action
Category Archives: writing
Happy Birthday TPaL!
Happy Birthday Week TPaL! Tomorrow, I turn 27 (years young!?) and my baby, The Poppet and the Lune, turns 1 year old. To celebrate, TPaL is available for FREE in the Kindle store until the end of May 17th, our … Continue reading
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Small Victories
I did something this weekend that I’ve never successfully done before: I outlined my novel! I know, I know, that’s not really a big deal for all you clever people out there who always outline your novel because you realized … Continue reading
Try, Try, Try, Repeat: Lessons for a writer, from my ukulele
It just so happens that I have some (limited) talent with musical instruments–the mediocre kind of talent that means I can pick up almost any one of them and play Jingle Bells within five minutes of fiddling around (except for percussion instruments, … Continue reading
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5 Reasons Why Aspiring Authors Should Not Trust The Internet
Call me a hippy, or an optimist, or whatever you like, but I have a personal rule about any kind of advice: if it makes you feel good, take it; if it makes you feel like shit, it’s probably wrong. … Continue reading
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In Like a Lion
It’s MARCH. WHAT? Winter has been shockingly–shockingly–mild here in Buffalo. For the first time in years, we can accurately say at the beginning of March that spring is right around the corner. For me, spring always brings with it a … Continue reading
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Wailing at the Wall
Life has been a whirlwind. Let me tell you about the past few weeks as succinctly as I can. Nothing major has happened, not by certain standards anyway. But my brain and my heart have been on a strange journey that … Continue reading
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Let Go.
In the past month, I’ve reinvented the universe, abandoned my baby, and discovered the power to be found in completely giving up. That’s right–as I write this, I am on the waning side of a full-fledged creative block. I realized my novel needed … Continue reading
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The Artist as Batman
Like most of you, I have a day job. I happen to work at a pharmaceutical telemarketing group from 8:30 to 5, not using my degree in media study whatsoever. Maybe I’m using a little bit of my anthropology minor when dealing with … Continue reading
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On writing and dreams and life and things
Things have been crazy. So much editing, revising, synopsizing, brainstorming…only to ultimately have to just let it go. My book, my baby-out into the world. My ideas for the future, half-formed, half-fleshed–naked on the page before the people who I … Continue reading
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