https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/velvetwire6413/My thoughts on writing, on life in general, and my poetry, which amounts to the same thinghourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/velvetwire6413/616121Sketching by NJ Winter It’s really hard, you know? Getting things perfect. It’s a world view kind of thing too. I’d like to blame this tendency I have to need things to be perfect on the first try. I know better. I remember when I first started writing I went out to collect rejection letters. I...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/velvetwire6413/615864Belonging Nix Winter When my kids were little my life centered around them. They were my daily goal and my reason for living. One of the reasons I left Christianity was to make sure that they’d have the option of a ‘better’ deity. There were so many things I didn’t understand. Oh, but I thought I...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/velvetwire6413/615853Money is a little better. Not great, but well, here I am! I've missed this place! I'm back in Seattle too. Love it over here. Went to the museum yesterday. Gosh. Such good stuff. i need to make a big post about that. But here is a cover I'm working on. I'm not sure if I like yet or not.https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/velvetwire6413/579058Well:) I got the cover for 'The Silver Comb' from Freya's Bower today and it's actually really good:) Thank you all for giving me a place to write and a way to get over my writer's block. It's a terrible thing when writing to please other people feels like I'm diminishing myself. I think maybe...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/velvetwire6413/578371So.... I posted Connor Ch1 up on my site. And someone who does scripts for manga said my art wasn't good enough to be published. Which... was kinda disturbing to me. I know s/he's well meaning and mostly trying to be helpful. We're had a coversation going for the last day or so and here was my...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/velvetwire6413/578208*cheers* I'm getting a lot of reviews these days:) All of them good.. I'm not sure what's going on >.>:) http://www.fallenangelreviews.com/2008/October/Teresa-Snowman.htm Snowman got 5 angels:) Nixhttps://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/velvetwire6413/578119The first chapter of my comic is out now:) On the website.. there will be an ebook and a paper back too, like a comic book you know:) for like 3.99. You can read the base comic now though:) For free even! www.inkdancing.comhttps://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/velvetwire6413/577628https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/velvetwire6413/577627One of my stories got reviewed! Four Pixies:) https://www.darkangelreviews.com/Snowman.html I shall have to write more with them soon!:) This story is published by Freya's Bower, which is a pretty decent publisher:)https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/velvetwire6413/575313Twenty Years and a Turnip by Nix Winter So let me tell you how to make fried bread. First you get a bowl, some kind of flour, fluid (Water, a little milk, nothing acidic or flammable, please), some salt, maybe a little sugar, some baking powder, maybe a few other things if you have them, or not...