All My Cousins: A Family History Project

Last week I created All My Cousins: A Family History Project. This blog is intended to be used as a tool to research, record and preserve the history of our family.
My inspiration to start this blog was born from a recent visit with my grandmother Margret Westphalen. I am currently working on a biographical novel [...]

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Writing Family Biographies

One of my current projects is to tell the story of my grandmother’s life and I am struggling with how to go about it. First and foremost I write fiction. Most of my completed works are short stories. I have completed one novel and have another in progress. I have tried to stay away from [...]

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Frenzied…but no script

I did decide after all to participate in Script Frenzy but it is now Day 3 and I have just 3 pages and no motivation. Perhaps I am just not a scripting fool. I want to be but alas I am not. I may keep it up but my goal is now slightly less than [...]

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White People, Cheezburgers and Book Deals, oh my.

I’m guilty. I am a closet I Can Has Cheezburger fan. I go there to smile and laugh and yes, to procrastinate. However, I must admit I have never visited Stuff White People Like until today when I read about the book deals. Apparently both sites have received book deal with advances of $300K. [...]

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Script Frenzy begins today.

So I woke up this morning and strolled to the computer to check my email, blog stats, messages and so forth. Poured a cup of coffee and looked at the calendar…April 1st. Shoot! “Script Frenzy starts today,” I said with all the enthusiasm of a … see I got nothing. So after browsing and checking [...]

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