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Baton Blog Hop

by on May 12, 2014 in Write to Live, Live to Write

Happy Monday, my friends. Blogging on the Brink has been on the brink of extinct these days, so what better way to revive it than to participate in a Baton Blog Hop! Many thanks to my WNY RWA chaptermate Stephanie Haefner for passing the baton on to me. Stephanie has a great new release coming […]

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Caught in a Mosh: National Novel Writing Month

by on November 30, 2013 in Brain Candy, Write to Live, Live to Write

Good God, this blog hasn’t been updated in a month? And you call yourself a writer? Yes. Yes, I do. And for the last thirty days, I’ve been throwing myself into the mosh pit known as National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. It’s a totally voluntary act. You can stand safely on the sidelines and […]

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Swag More, Bark Less

by on June 28, 2013 in Eye Candy, Write to Live, Live to Write

A good friend of mine recently became a black belt in karate.  She’s a mild-mannered, unruffled Type-B personality with a take-it-or-leave-it attitude who began taking classes after her young daughter and her husband enrolled. It began as a social excuse for her, and provided a bit of fitness and fun. Yet after four, maybe five […]

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Magicicada…and the Writer’s Cycle

by on June 2, 2013 in Write to Live, Live to Write

If you live along the Eastern US Coast, chances are you are bracing for an invasion of apocalyptic proportions. I’m talking about the plague of 17-year locusts. “As if from some horror movie, cicada nymphs have been described as ‘boiling out of the ground,’” reports The New York Times. *shiver* This phenomena will happen from CT […]

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L is for… Louder than Love: Writing a Rock Hero

by on April 13, 2013 in Blogging from A to Z Challenge, Write to Live, Live to Write

OK, maybe this post doesn’t fit perfectly in with my Music-Fan connection theme, but I was stumped for ‘L’  today. Louder than Love, my debut novel due out in September, got me thinking about the old adage ‘write what you know’. Musicians – like actors and athletes – have long been frowned upon as ‘romantic […]

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Blogging from A to Z Challenge

by on February 3, 2013 in Blogging from A to Z Challenge, Write to Live, Live to Write

The Blogging Gods must be crazy – I’m attempting the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge once again! Why, you ask? Or, as one of my friends reacted, “Noooooooooooooooo!” Writers, when you ask them why they write, say they cannot NOT write. I think author Sara Gruen recently said it the best: “The only […]

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On the Brink of 2013

by on December 31, 2012 in Write to Live, Live to Write

As the last chapter closes in the book of 2012, Blogging on the Brink would like to cheekily raise a glass to ring in 2013: “May you never grow old And never get caught And never desire What others have got May you get what you want Get what you need May we never get […]

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NaNoWriMo Revisited, or Take a Leap

by on October 5, 2012 in Brain Candy, Write to Live, Live to Write

National Novel Writing Month 2012

I came across a great quote the other day: “What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?” It’s like asking someone what they would do if they won the lottery: endless possibilities. In this case, it would be a supermarket sweep of hopes and dreams. Those hopes and dreams are up on the […]

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Nice to see you, to see you…nice.

by on September 21, 2012 in Write to Live, Live to Write

Hello, Cleveland! Is this mic on? Check…check one-two. Welcome to my new chunk of prime real estate on the web! My blog got a makeover and she’s got an entourage now – check out the rest of my site, y’all. I wrestled with the chicken-and-egginess of the whole operation: do I publish first and then […]

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Writers’ Retreat!

by on April 26, 2012 in Blogging from A to Z Challenge, Write to Live, Live to Write

(This post is dedicated to my dear friend, Wellins. He’s not a writer and he’s not retreating, but everyone should have a Wellins in their lives!) W is for…wow. Almost there! Like scheduling a spa day after a grueling workout, I’ve got something to look forward to after a long month of blogging (and other) […]

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