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At 10:44pm on November 23, 2007, Ann Wilkes said…: Hi Clare!
Another OWWWer! :)
Ann

At 10:42pm on May 22, 2007, Paula R. Stiles said…: Hi Clare,

Good to have you on board.

Paula Stiles

At 4:51pm on May 22, 2007, Morgan Mandel said…: Hi Clare,
Welcome to Book Place.
I hope you have a great time & tell your friends!
Morgan Mandel

At 3:41pm on May 22, 2007, Clare Deming said…: Look, I'm commenting on myself! Neato!

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Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?: I'm an aspiring fiction author. I'm published in the world of technical/medical writing, and I've been working more seriously on my fiction writing for the past five years. I have several short stories that are making the rounds at various publishers. My current project is a fantasy action-adventure novel titled, Pirates of Eboral. The first draft is completed, and I'm revising into a readable version. Once I finish the initial revsion, I plan to prepare the synopsis and first three chapters to submit to agents or publishers.

Do You Have A Website?: http://www.geocities.com/clare_deming/writing_page.html

About Me:: My interests outside of writing range from fencing and photography, to scuba diving and aviation.

Favorite Books:: J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Robin Hobb - Farseer Trilogy
Orson Scott Card - Speaker for the Dead
E.E. Doc Smith - Lensman Series
Tad Williams - Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn Trilogy
And many others...
Reading now: The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman, Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson (audiobook).

Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace: Barnes and Noble
amazon.com

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BIC_HOK_TAM Come join my yahoo group for writers of all fiction or non-fiction. BIC_HOK_TAM means "Butt in chair, hands on keyboard, typing away madly!" If you need a little peer pressure, motivation and goal setting, then come visit the madness.
Other Worlds Writing Workshop (OWWW) An online SF critique group where I am a member.
Human Spaceflight Page Project Mercury through the International Space Station. Lots of info.
The best weather radar ever! Aviation Weather Center

I wish I was in a hammock on this beach, curled up with a good book!

Clare Deming's Blog

Starting SSIAW

Well, things have been going well for writing. I am about halfway through writing a draft of my WIP with the working title of Space Pirates. This story is turning out to be longer than I had originally envisioned, but is going well. This week marks the beginning of SSIAW (short story in a week) which is run through OWWW, a SF/F critique group. At the beginning of each week during March, one of the moderators at OWWW sends out two word lists of 5 words each. Each participating member must write a… Continue

Posted on March 3, 2009 at 1:01pm —

New projects, new yahoo group

Well, this past year has been a slow writing year for me, with too many distractions from work and other things. I finally have my work schedule into a more manageable state, and have been freeing up my time. In writing-related events, I have started a new yahoo group called BIC_HOK_TAM - Butt in chair, hands on keyboard, typing away madly! It is a group intended to allow writers of any sort of fiction or non-fiction to chat about writing and to set goals and challenges in a semi-public arena to… Continue

Posted on February 19, 2009 at 1:00pm —

Submission decisions

Wow, so it's been a while since I've submitted any of my short fiction, but it's time to get it back out there. I've spent several hours researching and organizing my lists of potential markets for 1 short story, 1 short novella, and 2 pieces of flash fiction. I'm too tired tonight to concentrate on the final e-sub, but plan on having 2 or 3 of the stories go out tomorrow. Then I'll be on to revision on another one, and plotting/outlining my NaNoWriMo novel that I started last month.

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Posted on December 11, 2007 at 11:52pm —

Back to work

Well, Andrew and I just returned from our honeymoon a few days ago. Everything was great, and now I'm dealing with the giant task of unpacking, organizing all the wedding gifts, thank you notes, and house cleaning. The good thing about all this is that I have nothing on my schedule besides normal work stuff. My free time is freed up with no deadlines. This means I'll finally have time to get back to my writing.

I think that I'll warm myself up by working on a couple of critiques for my

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Posted on October 15, 2007 at 5:16pm —

Writing again

Well, it's only 2 1/2 weeks before my wedding, and I managed to find some time to write today. I just started to work on a short story involving a cursed old man hiding in a cave in the arctic and the retired merchant that badgers him into revealing his secrets. I need to finish the rough draft by tomorrow, but I'm having some neck strain now, so the rest will have to wait until tomorrow.

In other projects, my piece for Compendium should appear in the October issue. I signed all the ap

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Posted on September 6, 2007 at 8:27pm —

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I added a few slides of my books to my blogspot. I'm not sure yet if they should stay on or not.

Do you have more trouble loading my blogspot with the slides up? Do you like them or are they too distracting?

A Christmas Tree Already

On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.

Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.

With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.

While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?

Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life

I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.

For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.

PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!

CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter

One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.

Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.

I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.

What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?