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Friday Five – Number Two Hundred Thirty Three

Two hundred and thirty three in a continued series creating a collage using five elements.

 

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Teenage Beast: The Home Stretch

This morning I finished the main body of the first draft of my horror novel, Teenage Beast.

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Blackberry Cheesecake Tart

This blackberry cheesecake tart seems like a lot of steps, but it’s really quite easy to put together. The blackberries in the market have been big and gorgeous, and I’ve been looking for a recipe to bake with them. Sweet cream cheesey goodness with juicy, ripe blackberries, definitely a winner! Continue reading

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Teenage Beast: Words and Pictures

As I have written before, I have been writing a horror novel — Teenage Beast — since June 7th and frankly, I am surprised by my progress. I thought I would spend several days staring at a flashing cursor, not knowing what I would peck out on my keyboard. After a fruitless week or two, I would have called it quits, but fortunately, that isn’t the case. I have managed to maintain a schedule of writing for at least an hour a day, every day, and it seems to be working. Words are flowing out of me, and so far I am 42,466 words deep into a first draft.

I have to say, I feel pretty good.

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Chocolate Chip Ricotta Cake

I had half of a container of ricotta cheese leftover from a dish I made over the weekend. Being that I hate wasting food, I was determined to find a way to use it up before it spent the next two weeks in the back of my fridge, only to be tossed out. Enter Chocolate Chip Ricotta Cake – the ricotta in this cake makes it moist and tender. Let’s face it, chocolate chips make everything taste good! The glaze on top is optional, you could always dust the cake with confectioners sugar and call it a day. Continue reading

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Two Months, Four Days and 38,329 Words Later

I’m still writing.

Somehow I have managed to keep to my morning ritual. Sadly, if this were a gym membership, I would have crapped out on it long ago. Writing is a lot less physically taxing, but it is mentally taxing. I’ve been managing to meet the challenge thus far. I’ve kept this daily appointment for an hour of writing on an obsolete computer since June 7th.

After using LibreOffice to determine a word count, I decided to continue writing the rest of the book in that program.

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