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Comment on Omni Magazine Entire Backlog Online by theliteratecondition

theliteratecondition — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:58:35 +0000

OMG LaShawn – thank you so much for this! I loved reading Omni. There was a patina in the air after I’d read one of their short stories, a quality that I’d somehow missed before.

Comment on My Wiscon 37 schedule by My Wiscon Schedule | the Literate Condition

My Wiscon Schedule | the Literate Condition — Tue, 14 May 2013 03:22:20 +0000

[…] to LaShawn for being organized and posting her schedule, thus reminding me to do the same (I know what I’ll be doing Friday night – I’ll […]

Comment on State of the My Writing Life by Outlining and Using [insert placeholder here] to write faster | The Cafe in the Woods

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:25:37 +0000

[...] Last year around this time (was it really last year?) I was spazzing out on my writing. It felt like it was taking me forever to do things. And then, I got the revelation to trust my words. I decided to hold off on any new short story writing while I worked on Willow. It’s been a year, and I’m now halfway through. I’ve been workshopping Willow to a new writer’s group I’ve been attending, and that has been super effective. [...]

Comment on Dealing with Conflict in Writing (Or, learning how to be bad and good at the same time) by kat

kat — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:16:16 +0000

Thank you for writing this LaShawn. I appreciate your openness about your struggle with/reluctance to writing Bad Things that will lead to Consequences. I have to tell myself it’s okay to write Conflict and Bad Decisions (it can be a really difficult sometimes). It’s helpful to hear the go-ahead from another author. Thanks!

Comment on Urbana 12 con report by IV Arts & SALT 2013 (con) Report | The Cafe in the Woods

IV Arts & SALT 2013 (con) Report | The Cafe in the Woods — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:51:54 +0000

[...] So remember in my last post where I said I should go to a Christian con in 2013? Funny how I mentioned that…. [...]

Comment on The Next Big Thing – The Weeping of the Willows by chrisd

chrisd — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 04:25:30 +0000

You know, in all these years, I never really knew what Willows was about. Thank you for your synopsis. You’ve done a great job!

Comment on The Next Big Thing – The Weeping of the Willows by blairmacg

blairmacg — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:34:43 +0000

Awesome! I am so looking foreward to reading your novel–now even more than before. The exploration of identity sounds fascinating.

Comment on First Draft of Weeping of the Willows: DONE by The Next Big Thing – The Weeping of the Willows « The Cafe in the Woods

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:26:18 +0000

[...] I had no clue what I was doing, threw all those chapters out, and started rewriting from scratch. I finished the first draft in July 2007 and saw that I had enough for two books. So I broke them in half, and I’ve been in rewrites [...]

Comment on Outlook Tasks is my crack (and organizes it well, too…) by The End of the Free Duotrope Era « The Cafe in the Woods

The End of the Free Duotrope Era « The Cafe in the Woods — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:14:31 +0000

[...] which served more as a backup for me since I also keep track of my submissions through Outlook, which I have written about in an earlier post (I have since upgraded to Outlook 2007 and added a few more custom fields, like keeping track of [...]

Comment on Review: Me and the Devil Blues: The Unreal Life of Robert Johnson, Volume 1 by LaShawn

LaShawn — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:41:56 +0000

I got my copies from our library, so check into that! I do have to admit, the art was indeed amazing and creepy.