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Daily Prompt: 3 Objects You Can’t Live Without What are three objects you couldn't live without? My laptop, books, my trigger release tool. If we count food: coffee. If we count living things: the ferrets. I also get depressed and withdrawn without houseplants.

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Rotating Drafts I'm so glad I'm trying this idea out! I've always forced myself to focus on one manuscript at a time. This led to typical frustrations with writer's block, frustration that made it worse, or long stretches where my brain felt worn out and I couldn't accomplish much anyway. This…

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Daily Prompt: What Shaped You The Most What experiences in life helped you grow the most? Honestly, hardship and pain. All of it. It was awful. I don’t ever want to go back or repeat any of the first half of my life… But it was poverty, years of hunger, betrayals, heartbreak, decades of…

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Book Updates Sing the Bones Manuscript This one is still in the query process with agents. So far I've gotten four rejections. Remember, this is NOT a bad thing! It's a normal part of the publishing process. (I created a great video on TikTok where I discuss the first one and why I think…

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Happy March! I can't believe we're already in March. This year is flying by. It feels like late spring here in north Georgia--which I'm still not acclimated to, coming from northern climates. I've only been here three years so far, and to me, it still feels like the season has accelerated by two…

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Daily Prompt: Fate/Destiny Do you believe in fate/destiny? Sort of? I’ve been a professional level astrologer for over 20 years. (Not three ambiguous lines in a newspaper column, but detailed study that examines how current events affect you, how we affect each other, and how we mature and…

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"MAGA simply doesn't understand how Trump plays in places that have nothing to do with Russia and Ukraine. Countries around the world now understand that the USA isn't someone you can depend on when the going gets tough. Trump is weak, and that is what he portrayed." www.rawstory.com/trump-zelens...

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Support for Ukraine is more critical now than ever. Watching that despicable display by a cowardly 3rd grade bully and his sycophantic VP should make every Republican hide their faces in shame. Pathetic treatment of a real leader. Republicans: grow a spine!

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Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊

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Daily Prompt: Anyone Else For A Day If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why? This is an interesting one for me to respond to. The grass isn’t greener elsewhere—you’re just trading one set of problems for another. So I would pick one of two options: Me, on my last…

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Experimenting with a New Writing Process I've used the exercise where you "interview" the character when you get stuck, and had great success with it. (Though I had one character in the past who notoriously did not want to answer, and always ended with me writing that he stalked off.) Having the…

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Daily Prompt: DIY Project Describe the most ambitious DIY project you've ever taken on. During the toilet paper shortage of 2020 I installed a bidet attachment in my bathroom. (For anyone in a country where they’re common, they’re very rare in the US.) I tried to install the version that allowed…

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Daily prompt: Biggest Upcoming Challenge What is the biggest challenge you will face in the next six months? For me, this will fall under juggling multiple priorities. Let me think—six months will bring us to late August. I’ll have my full-time day job in tech (and all the projects that go with…

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Important read

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I’m not saying we should all panic. But maybe the government shouldn’t shut down all the systems we have for monitoring this situation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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Daily Prompt – Favorite People to Be Around Who are your favorite people to be around? I tend to gravitate towards optimistic, compassionate, empathetic people with strong leadership traits. People who actively work towards leaving a lasting positive impact on the world, who genuinely want to help…

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Daily Prompt: Favorite Drink What is your favorite drink? COFFEE ❤️❤️❤️ You can pry it out of my cold dead hands. Some random fun facts: I pretty much only drink coffee and water, with an occasional phase of evening herbal tea. I also make smoothies for breakfast, which I technically drink, but…

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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I will not be flying until FAA is fixed. ❤️ Listen to the experts on this one

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🚨🚨🚨 PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana. For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5. 1/2

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This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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EDS Sick Day The unseasonable winter chill nipped my bones today. I'd forgotten my Voltaren (a prescribed painkiller) a few times this past week due to the warmer weather in northern Georgia this month. I've got a tendency to overlook it when my body feels good. Today I paid for it and needed to…

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Not legal at all

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Your food is no longer safe. YOUR FOOD!

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Look closely.

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AP is banned from WH events and all the other legacy journalists walk right in. If this was the 60s, we know who would have been with the Freedom Riders, and who would’ve been writing about them from a safe place. AP stands alone. Sad but true.

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Daily Prompt: Best Gift As a writer, the best gift I ever got was advice that changed the way I thought about writing forever. When I was 19, I got to meet Robert Jordan. It was a whole epic road trip that I'll never forget! 🤣

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Normalize Rejection Letters!

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If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...

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Planes didn't crash when this guy ran things.

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Snow-Blank Screen to First Five Pages I had unique writing blocks with her I never experienced in other stories, where she stopped moving forward in my head, and I couldn't imagine what happened next unless I could get her physically moving to physically see around the next corner, so that I could…

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Busy Sunday! I'm ecstatic over my progress today! First, I wrapped up editing the photos from Cabo San Lucas last year and started my travel photography section of the site. I love how they turned out! Second, I finished a total of 17 book agent queries!

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New section on my website for travel photography: mischafox.com/cabo-san-luc...

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Beginning Agent Queries~ Today I began the next chapter of my writing adventure: querying agents. I won't lie--no matter how hard you've worked to polish that manuscript to a shine, no matter how confident you are that this is your very best work... this process is nerve-wracking.

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Grad School Update After my conversation with the director of the graduate program regarding returning to the program, I’ve decided to go forward with it. I’m excited to meet the new class that I’ll be spending my last year with next Thursday. I’m very excited to see my old classmates next…

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The Senate Just Confirmed RFK Jr. to Lead HHS. Here's What He Said He Will and Won't Do at the Agency: No Democrats voted in favor of Kennedy, and one Republican – Sen. Mitch McConnell, a polio survivor – voted against him.

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Photo Editing… Hello, all! This week I’ve been focusing on editing some of my photography backlog. I’m trying to set some personal goals to work through them by photoshoot. This week I’m working on my travel photography from my birthday to Cabo San Lucas in Baja Mexico Sur last year. I’m excited…

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Tulsi Gabbard has just been confirmed as the Director of National Intelligence. 😫

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Website Relaunched! WHOO! I busted my butt over the weekend and relaunched my website tonight. It's in it's (I think?) fourth incarnation--and I LOVE the way the combined version is working so much better already. Trying to manage multiple websites, blogs, and the social media for each was…

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Almost READY! I had another amazingly productive evening! I've wrapped up the writing sample sections of the website, all but one section for visual art, and a handful of sections for my photography portfolios. I managed to update the SEO for each and even set up the site for subscriptions and…

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Website Overhaul and Social Media Reboot! I'm really impressed with the progress I made tonight! Most of my evening was spent overhauling this website for re-launch. Making nested navigation bars, creating new pages that feel more cohesive and organized... making notes for things I would like to…

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Good morning, bluesky!!! Since Canada hooks America up with so much, perhaps America should become Canada's 4th territory. Healthcare, reproductive rights, legal Marijuana, and French's mustard. Just some of the Canadian perks. #SheShed #Voices4Victory #wtpBLUE #YamTitsTariffs

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Kash Patel testified today that he didn’t know who Stew Peters was despite the fact that he was a guest on his show 8 times.

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No survivors are expected to be found after a midair collision involving an American Airlines regional jet and a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Rescue crews have recovered 27 bodies from the plane and one from the helicopter. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

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