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I took Novel November seriously and set my goal of 50,000 words. By the end of the month I had done it. Fortunately I had already writte about half of the third Talent Continuum book and that 50k brought me nearly to the finish line. I spent the next week wrapping up the next 10,000 words and the book. To be honest, what really slowed me down was melancholy. It was hard to come to the end of a trilogy I started in 2019. Saying goodbye to those characters (who really are lik
Phoenix McDonald
Dec 311 min read
Those Comparisons
When you write a book, you get asked what books you woud compare your book to. I wrangled with the answer to that one. I came up with The...
Phoenix McDonald
Sep 21, 20252 min read
Life Keeps Lifing
Here I am again, after another long absence. I'm not good at blogging, it turns. out. I tried journaling as a kid, and I was never good...
Phoenix McDonald
Sep 10, 20252 min read
Guess Who's Back, Back Again
It has been a long and vicious summer. My grandson has been gone since early June, which means it has been quiet. Too quiet. This is the...
Phoenix McDonald
Aug 6, 20253 min read
The Arigani
Thanks to Dany for another stunning piece of character art! This is Paracles, one of the Arigani. They’re undersea creatures who live and...
Phoenix McDonald
May 7, 20251 min read
It’s happening..
The story is coming along… 3000 words last night! I’ve an unreliable narrator, a group of friends, and the beginnings of the tale. I’ve...
Phoenix McDonald
May 5, 20251 min read
A real PNW tale
A friend of mine took a really cool and interesting picturing while on a hike the other day. The mountains here are beautiful and there’s...
Phoenix McDonald
May 4, 20251 min read
ARC reviewers wanted!
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Phoenix McDonald
Apr 8, 20251 min read
Cover reveal!
Da da da da! Here it is! Book Two of the Talent Continuum Trilogy, The Crystal Island, will be released on May 9, 2025. I absolutely love...
Phoenix McDonald
Apr 6, 20251 min read
Well, I am not good at this
Multitasking, that is. I want to be a good blogger, but even as a kid, journaling and the like were not something I was able to do well....
Phoenix McDonald
Mar 27, 20251 min read
Blog post!
Holy Cow, I forgot to blog again. It’s hard to keep up with all these things. I was on a push to get the book done (and I did! It’s at...
Phoenix McDonald
Mar 18, 20251 min read
Left handed notes during crunch time
I’m on the last couple of days of the book here and I realized something funny. It’s quite frustrating as a writer to have so many...
Phoenix McDonald
Mar 8, 20251 min read
What a week!
Oof. When you’re already disabled, adding one more thing can really knock you down and out. The stamina just isn’t there anymore. It’s...
Phoenix McDonald
Mar 5, 20251 min read
It’s a writing day off, but here I am
Had to get to the blog. Yesterday I couldn’t blog, because I was really down and out. Too hard to blog in the hospital, so I didn’t want...
Phoenix McDonald
Feb 27, 20251 min read
Work/life balance
The struggle is real! I’m not employed outside the house, because I’m fully disabled. Info, however, have a grandson I take care of when...
Phoenix McDonald
Feb 23, 20251 min read
Plotting vs. Pantsing
Some writers can outline and plan an entire book. They can write separate sections and then put them in order. I can’t do that. As a...
Phoenix McDonald
Feb 21, 20251 min read
Back to Blogging
Blogging is hard for me. I tried keeping a journal as a kid, and it wasn't something I was good at. Now, though, I find I have to look at...
Phoenix McDonald
Feb 20, 20251 min read
How writing works for me
It’s pretty often that Ill get an idea for a story and decide to start writing it so I don’t lose the idea. It’s hard to say how the...
Phoenix McDonald
Jan 31, 20252 min read
Suri never got his post!
Suri of the Cativera didn’t get their proper introduction! The Cativera are a nonbinary people who live in the grasslands of Lysomnus and...
Phoenix McDonald
Jan 22, 20251 min read
Hello Leopold!
Originally named for my own grandson (who was less than a year old at the time) Leopold is a favorite character of mine. I’ve spent so...
Phoenix McDonald
Jan 4, 20251 min read
A very personal project
When the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, many of us who have never had equality guaranteed by the Constitution took it very personally. a group of women and AFAB nonbinary people like myself were brought together by one very special person, Elyse, who asked us to help her create a very special collection of prose, poetry, and comics to demonstrate our anger, and by proxy, the anger of a nation at the removal of our body autonomy. This is an excerpt from my story, "The House of Cups".
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