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MIDNIGHT DAZE IS BACK!!!!!

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 By this, I mean the version of it that was always meant to be. LONG story. I've always talked about how I got burned out on publishing and I've been trying to reconnect with my writing and reclaim that joy I've been missing so much. Well, on Thursday, something pretty major happened that has unlocked everything for me. For over 20 years, my best friend Jaime was my co-author on the Midnight Daze series. When she first became involved, it was fanfiction. It was a wild mashup of The Monkees, Smallville , Supernatural , and pretty much every movie, TV show, book, and song we ever loved. Over the years, it evolved into something way bigger. It consumed our lives. We bought into the notion that it needed to be published, so we ground away at it, polishing and polishing until that damned burnout set in. And so began the whole "Writer Reset" phase. She turned the series back over to me, minus her characters, and we both set out to try and reinvent what we'd created...
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I WROTE A SCENE! And other writing/life updates!

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 Yesterday morning, I woke up with a scene running through my head. Nothing really unusual for me, except it hasn't been happening as much as it used to. So this time I decided to grab onto it before it faded into the void. I got up, did my usual morning stuff, grabbed my coffee, sat back in bed, and scribbled in my morning pages...but then I fired up the laptop and hopped on Ellipsus. And started WRITING. It felt so damn good! It was so much fun! Now, the experience wasn't 100% perfect. A few paragraphs in, I started experiencing a few irritations. Ellipsus is cool, but I discovered there were a few things I didn't like. The font that went with my chosen theme looked weird in italics. So I figured out how to change the font and kept it moving. But then two more weird things happened. First, when I typed *** to switch POVs, it changed it to a line. No biggie, I thought, I'll fix it later. But then...it also changed back to the original font. WTF? Ugh! So I ended up expo...
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Notebook System Update and Thoughts

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 I brought my thinking book with me to work today. It's a heavy little booger. But I like having it with me. It got me thinking about everything I'm using and want to use for my writing--notebooks, software, apps, ma brain...lol I would love to have it all in one place, but that's impossible, of course. I need different things to function in different ways. I made a list in the thinking book of everything I've currently got going, which then led me to start this blog post. So, here goes: I have two A5 ring binders, one I bought from Amazon that has skinny rings and a Moterm I got from Jaime that has bigger rings. I was using the skinny one as kind of an all-in-one writing binder, but I decided to move the reference materials and workbooks to the Moterm since it has more room. I'm thinking about resetting the skinny one as either a series bible or some other form of story note-keeping. Next is my A5 Vera Bradley spiral notebook. It's currently housing the few act...
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