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A Scene
HOME. SURROUNDED BY WET POOL TOWELS, AN OVERFLOWING SINK OF DIRTY DISHES AND MASS CHAOS. Lily, screaming at the top of her lungs for an unknown reason. Evan, naked, running circles around the house...
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Writing In The Digital Age
So, I’m writing that book. Twelve chapters down and twelve to go. My deadline? Two weeks. Now, I’m not great with math, but I’m pretty sure that’s not an enviable situation. Perhaps my method of...
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Mommy Gone Crazy
I ran into an acquaintance at school the other day. Barely slowing down our respective paces in the hallway, she quickly noted, “the book’s coming out soon — excited!?” “Yes!” I’m sure she expected...
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Writing a Book is Like Having a Baby
Last week, it dawned on me that it had been exactly nine months since I signed my book deal. Nine months of stress and excitement and worry and exuberance and everything in between. It seemed perfectly...
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This should probably be dealt with in therapy, but I don’t have a therapist,...
BioTwitterFacebookGoogle+Latest Posts Jill Smokler, AKA Scary MommyWhat started as an innocent on-line baby book to chronicle Jill's stay-at-home days with her children, quickly transformed into a...
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Squeeeee!!!
You know how people write out WOOT!!! on-line, but you can never really imagine them saying it? Because they don’t, in real life, ever? It’s the same with squeeeee!! What is squeeeeeing, exactly? And,...
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I’ve long acknowledged that having children was the end of any sense of modesty for me. Shitting on the delivery table? Yup, that put the kabbash on that. Writing a book, however, brought me to a whole...
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Oops… I Did It Again
Remember how I said that writing a book was just like having a baby? It really, really was. From the sleepless nights to the obsessing over every little thing to life never being the same since. Well,...
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Everything I Learned About Writing a Book… The Hard Way
I get more questions on the book writing process than anything else these days, so it seemed to make sense to put everything I’ve learned out there for anyone who’s interested. I would never claim to...
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