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Author Archives: M. H. Lee
Sort Of Kind Of Outing Myself
Not in the traditional sense of outing yourself, but more in the “I have too many pen names to keep track of and I’m tired of keeping them all separate” sense of things. I’ve started a new blog at http://www.mlhumphrey.com. … Continue reading
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Lucky Number Seven
This week starts the seventh year of my writing journey. I’m not where I wanted to be, but I’m making forward progress. And I have to keep in mind that when I started down this path I had heard that … Continue reading
I Should Be Happier
I’m sitting here in my own house with pup snoring somewhere down the hallway and my day is completely my own. I can write, I can sit out on the porch and read a book. I’m in good (enough) health. … Continue reading
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Tagged being a writer, contentment, dissatisfaction, happiness, writing
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I Know You Mean Well, But…
So I mentioned a little bit ago that I have a friend who’s dealing with brain tumors. They’ve set up a FB page to keep everyone posted about what’s going on so I’m getting to see not just updates by … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer, death, encouragement, reality, religion, serious illness
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You Could, But Have You?
That’s the much more polite version of what I found myself wanting to say more than once this weekend. I was visiting a good friend and her spouse and the spouse–who was once incredibly successful but basically hasn’t done much … Continue reading
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Tagged being a writing, it may look easy but it isn't, writing, you have to write the book
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Writing Rules Are For Shit
So on an agent blog this morning someone had written in to talk about how “bad” J.K. Rowling’s writing is. I’ll note that they failed to mark the two times in her Harry Potter books she used a really strange … Continue reading
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Tagged being a writer, bestselling writers are not bad writers no matter what you want to think, i hate critique groups, writing, writing rules
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That Gray Area Between Death and Life
I’d written about 300 words of a post about ethics and how like people gravitate to like people and then realized I just didn’t want to go there today. But…Since I’m here… A very good friend of mine just found … Continue reading
Let’s Talk Numbers
So, as usual when I know I should be writing but for some reason am stuck, I spent some time today playing with my Access database where I track sales across eight different platforms, eight different pen names, and, as … Continue reading
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Tagged being a writer, sales numbers sort of, writing
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Free Short Story and Thoughts on Pronoun
So, first, my short story The Bearer is free on Amazon at the moment. Should be in all markets, so if you’re interested, pick up a copy. This is the story that almost almost almost sold to Tor.com back when … Continue reading
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Tagged being a writer, free short story, pronoun.com, self-publishing, writing
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