Kathleen G. posted an article on Pots and Plots - Nov 10, 2009, 8:12 am
I’m really not sure how I have lived in the south my entire life and never had poppy seed chicken casserole before this year.  It is, I am told, a staple at pot lucks.  In any event, I was fir...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Nov 10, 2009, 8:02 am
I’ve been writing for seventeen years.  Coming up with characters and stories for longer than that.  I have learned that characters have very little respect for personal space, time, prior obl...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Nov 9, 2009, 9:46 am
I’ve been on the warpath in one of my classes this morning.  One of my students called my call FIVE TIMES this morning while I was trying to get ready for work.  Did not bother leaving a voice...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Nov 8, 2009, 8:44 am
It’s Sunday morning and I’m back from garage sale madness.  I left Thursday night for my mom’s and spent Friday and through noon Saturday trying to sell a bunch of stuff I no longer...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Nov 5, 2009, 8:56 am
This is my 1,000th post at Shadow and Fang.  I would like to say that I have some brilliant insight to share that everyone will want to retweet, but to be perfectly honest, I’m having one of my...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Pots and Plots - Nov 5, 2009, 7:59 am
How happy am I that fall seems to have finally arrived, and with it weather conducive to all the soups and stews I love to make?  After the weekend’s excesses (can we say Halloween candy, roast...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Nov 4, 2009, 9:21 am
Over at All The Worlds Our Page, Kristen is talking about how love scenes (or at the very least kissing scenes–depending on your genre) are a really great way to get to know your characters on t...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Pots and Plots - Nov 3, 2009, 7:12 pm
A couple of months ago–maybe longer now–The Pioneer Woman posted a recipe for sesame noodles over at her blog.  The moment I laid eyes on the recipe I knew I absolutely HAD to try it.  S...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Nov 3, 2009, 9:24 am
I conceived of this novella sometime during the summer when I was in the thick of writing HiS.  I made my notes, plotted it out, and let it sit.  I actually started working on it maybe a month ago, ...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Nov 2, 2009, 5:46 pm
I’m really late posting today.  I’ve been running around taking my car to the dealership, finding out I have a bent rim (thank you crappy Mississippi roads), having the nice and totally a...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Nov 1, 2009, 11:10 am
Well October’s Novel Push Initiative has officially CLOSED.  The numbers were truly impressive with a total collective word count of 177,266!   That’s two full length novels in 30 days!Â...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 31, 2009, 9:07 am
It’s Halloween.  I’m up way early because I kept worrying about my students’ term papers.  My general psych class (taught at a community college and not a full university where my ...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 30, 2009, 8:18 am
November 1st is on the horizon.  I have my plan.  The ultimate goal for this coming month that will help to save my sanity over Christmas break and the following the semester.  I’m going to f...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Pots and Plots - Oct 29, 2009, 9:22 am
Okay so my last several attempts for a Thoughtless Thursday post have just not turned out.  I seem to be without a brain lately.  Well this is my third day home sick, so I’m determined to moni...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 29, 2009, 8:12 am
I’m supposed to go back to work and be a productive member of society today.  I’m feeling much better, thanks.  After five days of fabulous sleep, 6:30 royally sucked this morning, but n...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Pots and Plots - Oct 28, 2009, 9:22 pm
I’ve been sick.  I tried making up a batch of split pea soup for hubby (his favorite sick food) but managed to forget about it in the crock pot and overcook it.  So today I was determined to m...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 28, 2009, 9:48 am
Everybody’s talking about NaNoWriMo.  That’s National Novel Writing Month to any of you uninitiated.  The month of November is when thousands of lunatics hopeful writers set out to write...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 27, 2009, 12:46 pm
I’m home for my second sick day today.  Hubby is home as well, so we’re doing the fuzzy headed, TV marathon thing.  The good news is that we don’t have the flu.  We’d have h...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 26, 2009, 10:00 am
I’ve been on a kick researching e-readers for the last week or so.  I had the rather brilliant, if I do say so myself, epiphany that an e-reader (the kind that allows you to highlight and make ...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 25, 2009, 10:17 am
I’m late posting this, but I was chasing after word counts and got busy I’m going to give abbreviated reports of totals as I burned the crap out of my hand yesterday and it isn’t too...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 23, 2009, 8:14 am
As a general rule, I hate forwards.  They clutter up my inbox and generally waste my time.  I have a handful of people who email me forwards because, I suppose, they can’t think of any legitim...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Pots and Plots - Oct 22, 2009, 5:35 pm
I was making chili.  After the lapsang souchong chili last week, hubby requested the regular kind.  So I had that going in one crock pot.  And I was experimenting with a pork vegetable soup in the ...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 22, 2009, 7:48 am
I am getting back a glimmer of excitement about HiS. I finished the rough draft September 17th and spent three whole weeks agonizing and angsting about it (much of which I poured out here, so if you ...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 21, 2009, 8:54 am
I’ve been listening to the first in La Nora’s Bridal Quartet on audiobook.  Vision in White marks her first return back to straight contemporary (as in without a paranormal or suspense el...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 20, 2009, 10:23 am
Well I didn’t wait 24 hours like I’d promised myself.  I justified the purchase of Write Way Pro as my reward to myself for finishing the first draft of HiS–a cheeseburger and a cou...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 19, 2009, 1:54 pm
I’ve been freakishly productive today.   That’s so weird.  I mean, it’s Monday.  Monday usually means I’m exhausted from the weekend, locked into staff meetings all morning...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Pots and Plots - Oct 18, 2009, 9:31 am
Since the lemon poppyseed buttermilk scones disappeared post haste, I decided to make some more scones. This time I went with a classic jam filled scone. They’re not cool enough to eat yet, bu...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 18, 2009, 8:47 am
I feel like we’ve played musical motorcycles this year.  We started out this summer trading my husband’s old CJ7 for a 1977 Honda CB550, which ran great when we got it and then stopped. ...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 17, 2009, 10:13 am
Okay I’m a few days late writing this up.  I had to chase down a few last words and have been very busy.  I am sad to say we’ve lost a few more folks to revisions, plotting, and the drea...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Pots and Plots - Oct 16, 2009, 7:32 pm
Some chilis are very straight forward with beef or turkey, beans, chili powder, cumin, sometimes tomatoes, sometimes not.  Some chilis have ingredients that make you go hmmm.  Coffee.  Cocoa powder...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 16, 2009, 8:49 am
So I faked sick yesterday afternoon and came home to clean my office.  My husband declared that was the worst reason he’d ever heard of to skip out on work, but as I pointed out, it’s nee...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 15, 2009, 10:20 am
Yesterday we finished Week 2 here of the October Novel Push Initiative.  I would love to post a report but I am MISSING word count reports from a lot of people!  While I chase all of them down, I ha...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Pots and Plots - Oct 15, 2009, 9:00 am
I promised I’d be back this week with something awesome and if the fact that my husband and I just both had seconds and polished off a meal intended for four is anything to judge by, this recipe...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 14, 2009, 9:00 am
It is a truth universally acknowledged that I cannot get out the door of Casa De Paw Print (after all the rain and the perpetually soggy ground, this is the new name of my house) at a reasonable time....
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Pots and Plots - Oct 13, 2009, 10:04 pm
I’ve been craving scones for over a week, but I had to wait until I hit the grocery store to buy butter.   We’ve talked about how I can’t actually keep it in the house due to my st...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 13, 2009, 8:41 am
Yesterday I was supposed to be writing some lectures for my theories of personality class.  I didn’t. Bad me.  I’ll regret it later. I didn’t write the lectures because I had a p...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 12, 2009, 9:34 am
Apparently I am incapable of getting my crap together on a rainy Monday morning.  I strolled in a whopping 20 minutes past when I usually do and am totally missing the staff meeting where they are un...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 11, 2009, 5:06 pm
I’ve been taking a mental health weekend.  Yesterday was all about getting prepped for the first official public show for Don’t Tell Joe, which went well despite some problems with the we...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Pots and Plots - Oct 11, 2009, 9:36 am
I was on my own for the night, so of course I indulged in pasta (it is my favorite go to meal when I”m not feeding hubby).  This recipe is for one really hungry person or two not so hungry peop...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 10, 2009, 11:19 am
In the realms of creativity, you don’t often hear someone tell you to think INSIDE the box.  Usually creativity is about finding new and interesting solutions/spins–going where few have g...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Pots and Plots - Oct 10, 2009, 9:48 am
I saw leeks on sale last week as we had that lovely snap of cool weather and I knew I had to buy some and make coup.  I had thought to make cock-a-leekie soup (one of my favorites from when I lived a...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 9, 2009, 8:22 am
To all of you who gave me pep talks the last couple of days, thank you.  I am officially over myself.  I am happy to report that yesterday we got the house mostly clean, laundry mostly done, AND I m...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 8, 2009, 9:14 pm
I cannot sing the praises enough of this batch of NPI participants.  Out of a whole bunch of newbs who were only expected to get 250 words a day, we’ve had truly outstanding wordcounts.  Highe...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Pots and Plots - Oct 8, 2009, 9:28 am
I got home from work today to find my husband practically salivating over the contents of the crock pot. “I don’t know what you did to these ribs, but oh my God, I’ve been drooling ...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 8, 2009, 8:03 am
It’s time for the Week 1 update for October’s Novel Push Initiative, but I’m still waiting on final word counts from a handful of people not in my timezone, so I’ll put that up...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 7, 2009, 8:01 am
PSA to all students of anything everywhere: If you do not understand something, ASK YOUR PROFESSOR.  Explaining things in a way that you can understand is what we are paid to do.  Making poor grades...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Pots and Plots - Oct 6, 2009, 9:45 pm
My husband was less than enthused when I said we were having pork chops for dinner.  So not the reaction I wanted.  But he has a point.  We’ve had grilled pork chops out the wazoo.  So for s...
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Kathleen G. posted an article on Shadow & Fang - Oct 6, 2009, 7:54 am
Yesterday’s words were hard. I didn’t even open my file until 7:30 last night.  It was just one of those super busy days where I was DOING from the moment I got to work.  I’m worki...
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