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The Moldavite Message
The Moldavite Message

If you could choose your reality, which one would you choose? The fall of a rare green meteor sparks a quest.

2017

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Stories

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Writers’ Blokke

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Write a 50,000-Word Pulp Novel Before Breakfast

My easy no-outline way of writing short novels in four weeks — To kick start my self-publishing business, I wrote a novel a month for three years. That doesn’t make me special. Lots of people do the same thing. Writing a novel a month is a very common business model for full-time author/publishers. As you gear up for NaNoWriMo, you’re going to…

Writing

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Write a 50,000-Word Pulp Novel Before Breakfast
Write a 50,000-Word Pulp Novel Before Breakfast
Writing

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The Writing Cooperative

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You Can Earn a Full-Time Living Writing Fiction

I earn more writing novels than short stories — and you probably will too — For several years now, I’ve been earning the majority of my income by writing fiction under a variety of pen names you’ve never heard of. And it isn’t anything special about me. Thousands of authors you’ve never heard of are quietly making a full-time living creating fiction. True, thousands of…

Writing

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You Can Earn a Full-Time Living Writing Fiction
You Can Earn a Full-Time Living Writing Fiction
Writing

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Age of Awareness

·21 hours ago

Flag Day is an Icky Holiday, and There’s Not Even a Barbecue

Why I wouldn’t pledge allegiance in high school — I’m thinking about flags a lot these days, and not just because the stupidest US holiday, Flag Day, arrives on June 14. It’s because whenever I walk around with my parrot in a backpack, everyone smiles and says hi and acts all friendly, and yet I see Nazi flags springing…

It Happened To Me

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Flag Day is an Icky Holiday, and There’s Not Even a Barbecue
Flag Day is an Icky Holiday, and There’s Not Even a Barbecue
It Happened To Me

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Gardening, Birding, and Outdoor Adventure

·1 day ago

Bad Crime Scene Photos from the Backyard Bird Feeder

Keep an eye on who your warblers are really feeding — It’s a dark scenario for Father’s Day when an adoring Daddy has been working morning, noon, and night to feed the child of the killer who kicked his own young out of the nest while they were still only a tiny egg. I switched to a high-octane no-melt peanut-flavored suet…

Birding

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Bad Crime Scene Photos from the Backyard Bird Feeder
Bad Crime Scene Photos from the Backyard Bird Feeder
Birding

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4 days ago

Bullied by a Fake Editor? You’re Not the Only One

Submitting your work is an act of trust — In the 1980s, when I was first starting out as a writer, I knew a lady who wrote a draft of a romance novel and started showing it around to editors and agents. It never went anywhere. Or did it? A year or so later, bestselling romance author Janet Dailey…

Writing

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Bullied by a Fake Editor? You’re Not the Only One
Bullied by a Fake Editor? You’re Not the Only One
Writing

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May 29

Banded Agate, A Forgotten Source of Magick

Honored for thousands of years, this stone is still worth attention today — I just pulled these two pieces of Banded Agate out of my tumbler, and I couldn’t be more pleased. These serene stones take a wonderful polish and result in specimens that radiate a calm beauty I can’t resist. We so often underestimate Agate. In a society where money is everything…

Crystals

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Banded Agate, A Forgotten Source of Magick
Banded Agate, A Forgotten Source of Magick
Crystals

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May 22

Savannah River Agate

The thrill of discovery — Many years ago, I received a large box of biggish stones in a rock swap. “Savannah River Agate,” said the old boy from Georgia who shipped them to my house. “Collected them myself.” Opening the box, I found a fairly random assortment of yellow, brown, and purple cherts and/or agates…

Crystals

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Savannah River Agate
Savannah River Agate
Crystals

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May 20

This is Why Nobody Uses Your Friend Link

A dirty secret exposed in one simple image — scroll down if you’re impatient — Author’s Note: I originally submitted this story to a publication in a large family of publications. The “editor” has been snarking at me ever since. Yes, I blocked her, but I guess that’s why God created sock puppets. Since I wouldn’t have thought this story was intense enough to create…

Writing

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This is Why Nobody Uses Your Friend Link
This is Why Nobody Uses Your Friend Link
Writing

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May 19

30 Million Years Later…

How long after the sixth extinction will it take to restore biological diversity to its previous level? — On Endangered Species Day, May 19, I’m thinking of a talk I heard on the topic of migration, a phenomenon that may or may not exist by the end of the century. The speaker, laughing nervously, said something like, “I know it looks bad now, but all hope is not…

Extinction

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30 Million Years Later…
30 Million Years Later…
Extinction

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Amethyst Dreams

·May 15

Would You Polish a Pebble?

When your hobby seems mysteriously weird to other people — Years ago, a group of us had gathered for some New Age purpose I can no longer recall, and the leader asked each of us in the group to describe what we said about a particular person behind that person’s back. I no longer recall what I said or even…

Photography

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Would You Polish a Pebble?
Would You Polish a Pebble?
Photography

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