# Author Ashleen O'Gaea ## Posts - [Taking a Break](https://ashleenogaea.com/taking-a-break/): I never expected to be at ease with setting my writing aside for months. I’m still a member of a couple of writing groups, but I don’t Zoom into all the meetings even though I’m in town. I even forgot a Zoom workshop I was looking forward to! Yikes! I am, at least, still jotting […] - [I'm Baaa-aack!](https://ashleenogaea.com/im-baaa-aack/): I have not blogged here since 2021, so kinda not in forever. Lots has happened since then. I’ve been working on writing, but in the last couple of years, I’ve been working more on moving from Arizona to Oregon. (There are lots of reasons, but the main ones are that two-three months of unrelenting 100°-plus […] - [Book Revisions](https://ashleenogaea.com/book-revisions/): The Jollyfoot’s Journey has been revised, and the revision – of Books One and Two, and of Books Three and Four (a separate volume), and of the Kindle edition of all four books – should be available on Amazon in a day or two. And guess what? The price of the second paperback has been […] - [Getting Back to It](https://ashleenogaea.com/getting-back-to-it/): The last few months have maybe not been as hard on me as on some people. Over the summer I got some writing done, but in the last few weeks, I haven’t done much. That’s because* I’m waiting for National Novel Writing Month to start …. I’m trying a new genre, a modern-day noir detective […] - [I'm Easily Distracted](https://ashleenogaea.com/im-easily-distracted/): ​I’m easily distracted, but I don’t think I’m wasting time.Covid cannot be redacted, so I make masks for me and mine.(I’m also making some for friends, and some to donate, too –in these days of life and death, it’s the least that I can do.)But I’m writing, and I’m editing, and hope to catch all […] - [Noveling, ish, in the Days of Covid](https://ashleenogaea.com/noveling-ish-in-the-days-of-covid/): I haven’t written anything new, except for jotting down some ideas … but not because I’m suffering from the depression and distraction that attends the Covid crisis for so many of us. I’m not writing new stuff because I’m working on editing older stuff, and saving what I hope are good ideas for November, when […] - [Writing Bitches](https://ashleenogaea.com/writing-bitches/): ​For writing conventions, I’ve got a workshop called Writing Witches, about how to create realistic Pagan characters. But in this blog, I’m talking about Writing Bitches, because that’s what I’m trying to do right now. Constance Evershaw is the main character in my novel-in-progress, The Evershaw Century. Mae Haley is one of the other characters. […] - [Back at it Again!](https://ashleenogaea.com/back-at-it-again/): It has been some time since I’ve blogged here, probably because it has been some time since I’ve been writing. But – it’s November, and that’s National Novel Writing Month, and it compels me. (This is my thirteenth year “nano-ing,” as we say.) This year’s title is The Evershaw Century, and I hope to get […] - [Not Writing Related](https://ashleenogaea.com/not-writing-related/): So, Husband-man, aka Dear Husband (DH, which is the abbreviation we use on the RV FB pages), had his first cataract surgery last Thursday, and will have his second this coming Thursday. For the next forever weeks (not really – 7 weeks, really) there will be eye drops. Lots and lots of eye drops. He […] - [Tidying the Office](https://ashleenogaea.com/tidying-the-office/): So, I started reading Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, and even before I’ve finished the book, I’m heavily into the process. I’ve modified it some, but it’s working for me. And in theory, tidying one’s space also tidies one’s mind. We can but hope!The closet isn’t done yet, but four or five […] - [Conversion](https://ashleenogaea.com/conversion/): No, no, not trying to get you to change anything. I want to talk about language in fantasy and sci-fi (and other other-worldly, other-timely) settings, We take it for granted, we writers, that most people have the same feelings. Not about the same things, of course, and the way people – characters – express their […] - [Learning Curves](https://ashleenogaea.com/learning-curves/): I finished another novel, in draft, during November. It turned out to be my twelfth year of participation in National Novel Writing Month; I think I’d thought it was ten years. I hope my writing’s getting better, generally, but this year, I’m learning how to write an e-book. Silly me, I thought it was the […] - [Another November, Another Novel](https://ashleenogaea.com/another-november-another-novel/): As I jot my musings down, I am 1317 words away from hitting National Novel Writing Month’s 50,000 word mark, and taking a little break to consider what those words will be. My characters have been surprising me, creating little corners for me to write myself out of. When I first started writing, 600 years […] - [Patience](https://ashleenogaea.com/patience/): ​So, the consequences of my own action – well, inaction, really – have come back to bite my posterior anatomy pretty hard: I failed to back up my work adequately, so when the hard drive died a malfunctioning death, I lost everything. I mean seriously, everything. My books are gone, drafts as well as completed […] - [Media Rant](https://ashleenogaea.com/media-rant/): It’s funny the way I watch TV. If it’s a show, say a mystery, I never try to figure it out. I probably could, but I’d rather see it unfold before me, and amaze me. I want to be entertained, and thinking critically about it gets in the way. Of course, sometimes there are plot […] ## Pages - [Contact](https://ashleenogaea.com/contact/) - [Thank You!](https://ashleenogaea.com/thank-you/) - [Books](https://ashleenogaea.com/books/) - [Echo Crossing Book Two: Crossing Unbound](https://ashleenogaea.com/echo-crossing-book-two/) - [quirky-test](https://ashleenogaea.com/quirky-test/) - [Fiona's Girl Friday](https://ashleenogaea.com/fionas-girl-friday/) - [The MacCollum Charisma](https://ashleenogaea.com/maccollum-charisma/) - [Silver is for Single Girls](https://ashleenogaea.com/silver-is-for-single-girls/) - [The Old Mine Ghosts](https://ashleenogaea.com/old-mine-ghosts/) - [The Castle Ghosts](https://ashleenogaea.com/castle-ghosts/) - [The Evershaw Century](https://ashleenogaea.com/evershaw-century/) - [The Crystal Witness](https://ashleenogaea.com/crystal-witness/) - [The Prince Patrick Stories & Other Tales for Children](https://ashleenogaea.com/price-patrick-stories/) - [Summer's Magic: The Wiccan Year at Gran's](https://ashleenogaea.com/summers-magic/) - [The Broken Oath](https://ashleenogaea.com/broken-oath/) - [Maiden, Vampire, Crone](https://ashleenogaea.com/maiden-vampire-crone/) - [The Flower Bride](https://ashleenogaea.com/flower-bride/) - [The Green Boy](https://ashleenogaea.com/green-boy/) - [Mere Mortals' Magic](https://ashleenogaea.com/mere-mortals-magic/) - [Murdering the May Queen](https://ashleenogaea.com/murdering-the-may-queen/) - [The Doom of Moy Mocruime](https://ashleenogaea.com/doom-of-moy-mocruime/) - [Grey Matters: Talk of the Towne](https://ashleenogaea.com/grey-matters/) - [The Jollyfoot's Journey Books Three & Four](https://ashleenogaea.com/jollyfoot-book-three-and-four/) - [The Jollyfoot's Journey Book One & Two](https://ashleenogaea.com/jollyfoot-book-one-and-two/) - [Echo Crossing Book One: Echo Bound](https://ashleenogaea.com/echo-crossing-book-one/) - [About](https://ashleenogaea.com/about/) - [Home](https://ashleenogaea.com/) - [just testing](https://ashleenogaea.com/curious-about/) - [Just Curious About Wicca](https://ashleenogaea.com/just-curious/) - [The House-Haunting House](https://ashleenogaea.com/house-haunting-house/) - [Quirky](https://ashleenogaea.com/quirky/) - [The Boatbuilders Tale: and Other Oregon Memories](https://ashleenogaea.com/the-boatbuilders-tale/) - [Abracadabra for Everyone](https://ashleenogaea.com/abracadabra-for-everyone/) - [In the Shadows of Adventure: Adventure Wicca's Elucidated Book of Shadows](https://ashleenogaea.com/shadows-of-adventure/) - [In the Service of Life: A Wiccan Priestess' Perspective on Death](https://ashleenogaea.com/priestess-perspective-on-death/) - [Enchantment Encumbered](https://ashleenogaea.com/enchantment-encumbered/) - [It's All About the Little White Dog](https://ashleenogaea.com/little-white-dog/) - [Family Wicca](https://ashleenogaea.com/family-wicca/) - [Raising Witches](https://ashleenogaea.com/raising-witches/) - [Celebrating the Seasons of Life: Beltane to Mabon](https://ashleenogaea.com/seasons-of-life-book-2/) - [Celebrating the Seasons of Life: Samhain to Ostara](https://ashleenogaea.com/seasons-of-life-book-1/) - [Page Not Found](https://ashleenogaea.com/page-not-found/) - [The Portable Spell Book](https://ashleenogaea.com/the-portable-spell-book/) - [Disclaimer and Disclosure](https://ashleenogaea.com/disclaimer-and-disclosure/) - [Terms of Use](https://ashleenogaea.com/terms-of-use/) - [Blog](https://ashleenogaea.com/blog/) - [Privacy Policy](https://ashleenogaea.com/privacy-policy/) [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)