Self-Isolation, Marketing During A Deadly Virus Outbreak, & Excerpt of WARNING: RIGID STANDARDS
Like many others, I've been practicing self-isolation. Coronavirus has hit the world hard, and my state has been hit hardest - or close...
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deidrehuesmann
- Jan 22, 2020
- 1 min
Take A Mental Health Day
Specifically, this blog is taking a mental health day. I mentioned in this post that I'm trying to be kinder to myself and my own mental...
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deidrehuesmann
- Jan 15, 2020
- 2 min
Writing & Querying: Nudging Your Friends
I have a friend. I can actually call her that these days even though we've never met in person, but we talk almost daily now. We met on a...
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deidrehuesmann
- Jan 1, 2020
- 1 min
Happy New Year! & Post-Hiatus Apology
First, Happy New Year! I'm actually looking forward to 2020, though I'm keeping expectations low. 2018 and 2019 were not kind to me at...
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deidrehuesmann
- Nov 27, 2019
- 1 min
Happy Thanksgiving, I Guess?
This post may be a little... politically loaded. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the U.S.A. In the past three years, a lot of N.American...
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deidrehuesmann
- Nov 6, 2019
- 2 min
NaNoWriMo & (possible?) ADHD
I'm not actively participating in NaNoWriMo this month. I've tried in the past. I struggle to keep on track. Which seems odd; one...
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deidrehuesmann
- Oct 23, 2019
- 4 min
Destigmatizing Therapy
*Name changed for privacy. This is not a post about writing or craft, but it is something I have strong feelings about. In the year 2019,...
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deidrehuesmann
- Oct 2, 2019
- 2 min
Make It Queer: Rewriting a Solid Premise
Recently, I changed a WIP. I'm still querying, so I'd prefer to be vague, but it was essentially a fairy tale retelling where the heroine...
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deidrehuesmann
- Aug 7, 2019
- 1 min
I got married!
My fiance and I tied the knot this past weekend. Most of our immediate families were there. I managed to get the youngest into a summer...
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deidrehuesmann
- Jul 31, 2019
- 2 min
Querying is rough. Especially if you have anxiety.
I started my querying journey with Blistered (A Modern Greek Myth), which was eventually picked up by a small press. But agents weren't...
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deidrehuesmann
- Jul 24, 2019
- 3 min
How to Write as a SAHM?
Writing requires a lot of dedication. You have to not just know but love the craft and be willing to deal with all the frustrations that...
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deidrehuesmann
- Jul 10, 2019
- 4 min
"Will there be a sequel to Yearning Young?"
Jeff, Braeden, and Maya weren't always ordinary teenagers. In fact, the first iteration of "Burning Britely" was utterly different.
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deidrehuesmann
- Jul 3, 2019
- 2 min
Baking : Writing :: Potayto : Potahto
I've been writing since 2001. Well, probably earlier, but 2001 is when I remember having an online account specifically dedicated to the...
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deidrehuesmann
- Jun 26, 2019
- 2 min
Big Changes
The past year has been quite a doozy. In August 2018, my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and passed a month later. In February...
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