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Update on My Novel #37

It’s been a while since I have posted, just over three months to be exact, and as one might imagine,…

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Revising The Storm #48

Two weeks ago, I gave an update on my novel, after which I shifted to doing some work on my…

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Update on My Novel #36

Two-and-a-half weeks ago I stated that I was scaling down this blog and giving my attention to my novel and…

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