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The Courage It Takes

February 28, 2021 ~ ajmaguire ~ Leave a comment

Writing is not for the faint of heart. When I started this whole writing thing, I was a child who thought it was great fun. One assignment from a teacher in the sixth grade opened the world of fiction to me and I played around with all the fantasy, making shallow stories that grazed through … Continue reading The Courage It Takes

The Year of COVID

December 8, 2020 ~ ajmaguire ~ 2 Comments

Normally this is my favorite post of the year. The moment when I look back on all the work I managed to get done and begin planning out the next projects. I look forward to it. I make notes of things I deviated from, new projects started, projects scrapped, and generally remind myself that I … Continue reading The Year of COVID

Kicking of NaNo 2020

November 2, 2020 ~ ajmaguire ~ Leave a comment

I ended the first day of Nano 2020 at 3244 words. Which is excellent. I do admit that I am not doing a straight-laced Nano this year. Instead of starting from scratch on a brand new manuscript, I have unearthed the thing I started earlier this year that COVID derailed. Remember when I was doing … Continue reading Kicking of NaNo 2020

NaNoWriMo 2020

October 27, 2020 ~ ajmaguire ~ Leave a comment

Here we are, nearing the end of the craziness that is 2020, and I honestly didn't think I would commit to writing for National Novel Writing Month. For one, I have kid doing remote learning, which is 120% more challenging than I imagined it would be. I cannot count the number of times I have … Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2020

Casting the Book

October 5, 2020 ~ ajmaguire ~ Leave a comment

Recently I began reading a new book from one of my favorite authors. I had been looking forward to this book because it was revisiting 1800's London and the author had done a beautiful job describing that time period. I also love the fantastical elements of the world she created. Urban fantasy is fascinating to … Continue reading Casting the Book

Exploring New England – Martha’s Vineyard

September 28, 2020 ~ ajmaguire ~ Leave a comment

A while back, my husband and I took a trip to Martha's Vineyard and stayed at the Dockside Inn. With COVID restrictions slowly being lifted, we were anxious to get out of the house and stretch our legs, and what better way to do that than to go somewhere we'd never been before? I should … Continue reading Exploring New England – Martha’s Vineyard

Chagrin – Tempering the Writer

September 21, 2020 ~ ajmaguire ~ Leave a comment

A while back I finished my 3rd and I'd hoped final revision of Song of Bones/Melody of Bones/that dragon story I always wanted to write but kept putting off. My stubborn brain insisted it was complete, that I had told the story the best way I knew how, and that it was time to set … Continue reading Chagrin – Tempering the Writer

Embracing the Super-Soldier Cliche

September 6, 2020 ~ ajmaguire ~ Leave a comment

From Achilles to Captain America, Perseus to Luke Skywalker, our stories have been saturated with soldier heroes. We play them in our video games, we read them in science fiction; super soldiers who have the strength to fight when others fall behind. AVAILABLE September 8, 2020 We love them because they fill us with hope. … Continue reading Embracing the Super-Soldier Cliche

Daphnis Up Close – For Science Fiction

August 6, 2020 ~ ajmaguire ~ Leave a comment

Daphnis was discovered back in 2005 by the Cassini mission team. Before that, scientists had suggested that there was a moon there based on the ripples they could see in the Keeler Gap, but hadn’t any solid proof it was there since… you know… the planet is so far away from us. What the mission … Continue reading Daphnis Up Close – For Science Fiction

Researching the Galaxy

July 27, 2020 ~ ajmaguire ~ 2 Comments

https://www.iau.org/public/themes/pluto/ When I first started the Tapped series, I made the conscious decision that I didn't want to set my science fiction in "a galaxy far, far away" with planets we only just now are discovering. While doing that may have afforded me a little more freedom in writing those planets, imagining what they might … Continue reading Researching the Galaxy

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