The Horrors of Dressing Room Lighting, or WTH?

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I feel the need to rant. Why do the people who design dressing room lighting use those horrific fluorescent bulbs that suck all pigmentation from your skin and leave you looking like a plucked chicken? I know I’m not tan. I never claimed to be tan. In fact, most of the time when I shop for makeup I choose the … Read More

Negative Wind Chill Sucks

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I’m sitting outside enjoying the sunshine with my dogs, because it’s forty degrees. (No, that is not a typo.) A few months ago, I would have laughed if anyone referred to forty degrees as warm-enough-to-sit-on-the-deck weather. After experiencing negative twenty wind chill, forty feels downright balmy. And I’m craving outside time. It feels like I’ve been in forced hibernation the … Read More

Writing Mistakes to Avoid, or Things We Did Before We Knew Better

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This is a list of advice I’ve gathered from multiple craft books, critique groups, and workshops. And yes, there are exceptions, but you have to know the rules before you break them.  1. Adverbs make your writing weak. Avoid adverbs. (That whirring sound you hear is all the deceased English teachers rolling over in their graves.) 2. “That” is a … Read More