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Recent Posts

    Several times a week, the Central Phoenix Writers Workshop meets to critique and commiserate.

    Rules o’ Ritin’
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    January 28, 2019

    There’s lots of them, of course: punctuation, word choice, active versus passive voice…

    I earned my first SOTA points a week ago as an activator, and again this morning as a chaser. (My amateur radio call sign is K7EDS.)

    Since 1999, this annual event has helped motivate authors, including lots of wannabes like myself, complete book-length 50,000 word pieces in the month of November. With a daily goal of 1,500 words and a website for participants to commit to and then track their daily progress, NaNoWriMo provides the daily carrot, or in my case what worked for me-the whip-to get it done.

    Pixie Ears
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    October 9, 2017

    The hearing of my Chinese Pixie is much better now.

    2023 Addendum

    I survived, have been cancer-free for more than six years, and am living life to the fullest.

    2023 Addendum

    It’s been six years since I wrote this, and I am officially a cancer survivor.

History

EDSkinner.net began in 2023. Fiction and non-fiction publications are included as well as (blog) posts and supplemental materials from flat5.net (2004-present).

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