author: Nicole J. LeBoeuf

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Puzzle Pirates Examiner: Puzzle Pirates blockade schedule for the weekend of March 7-8
2015-03-07 13:51 MST

First thing you need to know: U.S. Daylight Savings Time starts tomorrow, March 8. And yes, that affects Pirate Time. However, even after years of posting these weekend blockade round-ups, I still manage to get all the Sunday...

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actually writing blog: this fictionette needs a check-up and also some quiet time
2015-03-06 23:42 MST

Please welcome the latest Friday Fictionette to the family, "Please To Confirm Your Appointment With BRIGHT SMILES!," an excerpt of which you may read here. It was a lot of fun to write. I should warn you, though, it ends on a cliff-hanger. I have several . . . .

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actually writing blog: also, ex-MFA dude is a poopy head
2015-03-05 23:24 MST

This will be a very quick post, because today has been a very long day. It was a day involving both physical therapy and roller derby (albeit in a non-skating capacity for me; I was a penalty timer), which means by the time I got home for the night I was r . . . .

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actually writing blog: here be dragons and doooooom (needs citation)
2015-03-04 23:18 MST

Hey! I made some progress on my story today! It went something like this: I only managed one micro-session around 6 PM rather than several throughout the day, because avoidance monsters. Of course. Avoidance took the familiar form of bog-standard procrast . . . .

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actually writing blog: we all have our hot cross buns to feed to bears
2015-03-03 23:43 MST

Hooray! The "Fictionette Freebie" for the month of February is out and free and clear and all yours. I chose "If On A Winter's Night Two Travellers..." because, looking back at the last four months of Freebies, I thought we needed something a little more u . . . .

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Puzzle Pirates Examiner: How to earn the March 2015 Seal o' Piracy
2015-03-03 18:39 MST

If you've gotten a little tired of non-stop pillaging, you'll enjoy the March 2015 Seal o' Piracy. It offers a bit of respite from the high seas and brings you back to land. In...

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actually writing blog: fake it til you can at least make it roll it down the hill
2015-03-02 23:54 MST

OK, this is as late as I ever want to get with a Friday Fictionette. Just posted the one for February 27 a moment ago--"A Bridge Just Far Enough"--and have plans to release the February Fictionette Freebie tomorrow morning. I honestly can't decide which on . . . .

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Puzzle Pirates Examiner: Puzzle Pirates blockade schedule for the weekend of February 28-March 1
2015-02-28 13:41 MST

Whoo! We got blockades. Bunches of blockades! Page down and you will see all the blockades. Meanwhile, here's some highlights:Cerulean Ocean Universe A declared, via sequential art, an intent to attack Crimson Tide on the picturesque...

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actually writing blog: wait let my check my notes
2015-02-25 20:18 MST

Last week I declared this week to be the week of Finishing The Short Story Rewrite, Dammit. Let's see how that's going, shall we? Monday we spent frantically cleaning the house and putting things in storage, because... Tuesday was the day the realtor too . . . .

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actually writing blog: better late than ooh hey look shiny
2015-02-23 23:37 MST

Well. It wasn't up Saturday, and it wasn't up Sunday. But it's up now: "Ink That Casts a Shadow," the Friday Fictionette for (nominally) February 20. It's totally pretentious and meta and a story whose protagonist is an author that's totally not me, totall . . . .

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