HeyJaredMigratory Bird
Birdland is my home, the family farm in rural East Central Illinois. I live there with my husband, two silly dogs, a royal cat, a turkey, a flock of chickens, and a colony of bees. But during the school year, I teach in China. Thanks for reading!
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I thought that posting about my current projects would help me keep on track. Here goes.Lady of Spain: una novela cortaI am finishing the final editing for self publication. This is the longest story about my character, Ruth Harris (see next item). I hope to have it out early next year.<div class
Writing Tools (opens the original)
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Here are tools I’ve found helpful. I hope you like them. Let me know what tools you use and I’ll add them here.750 Words This site provides a secure space for writing. I use it for drafting, brainstorming, or even just getting stuff out of my system. It has some fun analysis tools, and provides silly incentives, like like the Phoenix for writing 100 days in a row. Here you can see my data for a particular day of writing: Mary’s Data. Scroll down the page to see data about sensory inforamtion and
Hello World! (opens the original)
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Welcome to my author site. Here I will post publication credits, with links where possible. I’ll also begin to build some pages with resources for writing. I’m having fun thinking of resources I can share with other writers. What are your favorites? Drop me a line if you have questions or want to see something here that I haven’t thought of yet.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kkxw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsu
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