Author Archives: Rachel

About Rachel

I'm a writer in progress, and in my day job I copyedit/solve puzzles.

I saw The Hobbit

Rob and I went to see The Hobbit the Saturday morning after release.  We’d planned on waiting; we don’t care for opening weekend crowds.  But we found an extremely early (9:30 a.m.) showing (high frame rate 3D) at a theater that’s … Continue reading

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About that NaNo thing

So, I tried to do the NaNo thing and write 50,000 words in a month.  That didn’t quite work.  Partly because I was trying to write something I found boring, and I got bored with staring at the same four … Continue reading

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NaNoWriMo

First, because not everyone knows what it stands for, NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. The objective is to write a novel, consisting of 50,000 words, during the thirty days of November. Something to keep in mind–50,000 is at the … Continue reading

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Unicorns

Rob and I went to NYCC the past weekend.  The picture there?—> That’s us with Peter S. Beagle. He wrote The Last Unicorn.   I also got to meet Tess Gerritsen–Grandpa helped her when she wrote Gravity. It’s the small … Continue reading

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Another update sorta thingie

I haven’t done much since I finished the draft of my story. Mostly reading, very little writing. I was pretty much a lump. I’ve changed that in the past couple weeks–slowly started in on revisions-very slowly-and I bought a new … Continue reading

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