Mountain Girl

Keto Mug Cake - 2 TBSP Almond flour - 1 TBSP Swerve/Sugar Substitute - 1 TBSP Coco Powder - 1/4 tsp baking powder - 1 tsp water -1 TBSP Sour Cream -1 Egg 1) Combine dry stuff (flour, swerve, coco powder and baking soda) 2) Add sour cream, egg and water 3) Stir until it's all mixed up 4) Nuke for 2-3 mins until it's done and puffy and looks like a cake.   176 calories, 2.9g net carbs/cake. Enjoy!

So...still alive. Still haven't finished Book Four.   I know, I know.  Work stuff got in the way, and I think I burned myself out by writing three novels in less than a year, and the whole parenting thing...and then I got a full time job, too.  But I'm still here ;)  Still (somewhat) active on Twitter - and finally breached 1k followers!  So thanks to everyone in the #writingcommunity for that, you are all awesome! The Writing Thing. I've got another three book ideas the churn out, now that my work will be slowing down for the next few months.  The great thing about working in a tourist town is that, once summer is over, it gets reaaaaally quiet until the warm comes back.  Especially since the kids are heading back to school.  I'll actually have time to think.  And overthink.  I'm wondering if two of my book ideas are too similar.  The third, of course, is more Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy cross over, and so completely different, but the

Know what's frustrating? Writing a decent-length blog post about All The Shit I've Done With Apples just now, and then having it not save in spite of having deliberately hit the 'save' button multiple times. Urgh. Anyway, I've done A Lot of Shit With Apples in the past week or so.  This much of it, in fact: Which is a lot.  11L of apple cider/juice (two of them with cranberry in), 2.5L cranberry-apple jelly, 1.25L regular apple jelly, 57 cups cut up for pie/jelly/applesauce in the freezer, 6L of applesauce (7, if you count the jar we've already eaten), 1.25L apple-blueberry jam...and a couple randoms of cherry jam and blueberry-raspberry from earlier in August. But yeah...had a big long post... Bah. Anyway, here is my cranberry-apple jelly recipe, because it's fantastic and I want you guys to have a go (if you're inclined): Things you'll need: A lot of apples A lot of cranberries Water A Big-ass Pot Time Pectin

It's Writing Tip Wednesday - on a Friday!  (Because I forgot to write it when I should have...) Which brings me to my tip:  Schedule Shit. Weekly Disclaimer Thing :  Writing, like all art, is a subjective experience.  Stuff that works for me won't necessarily work for you...though I hope it does, since I'd love for everyone to succeed.  Can never have enough books to read!  Either way, take these tips with the giant grain of salt needed to season it to your liking, since I could very well be talking out my ass. Scheduling is Like the Outline of Your Life. I know.  So deep. But it really is.  I don't know why this didn't occur to me ages ago, since it's so damn obvious, but I think the perspective shift is good.  It is!  Because outlines are important, as we know (even if they're loose ones), so scheduling shit is important too.  The level of it is, of course, up to you and what you're comfortable with.  Some people like to pa

Miscellaneous Monday Wherein I Babble About Random Things THE BOOKS HAVE GONE WIDE! Well, at least two of them have.  The third is still waiting out its term in KU, but as soon as that's done...Woo!  So, Snowed In  and Smoked Out  are both available on multiple platforms now!  Including Kobo SUPER PRETTY LINKS: Snowed In Smoked Out So yeah.  Check them out, if you want.  They're both still available on Amazon, of course, as paperbacks as well. Cherry Update I've washed, pitted, bagged and frozen...40 cups of cherries so far.  Which is approximately 10 L of them.  I'll use about 4cups/batch of whatever it is I'm making (jam or pie filling or whathaveyou), so I'll have a lot of canning to do.  Especially since I've still got another ~10L left to pit. And apples to pick. Speaking of jam, I used the raspberries from the garden and some blueberries from the store to make jam today.  I friggin love the colour: Yes, I know my c

Oops...almost forgot to do this ;) I took this one because of the colours.  There was a campfire going and stuff, but I've always loved trees against a sky this colour...super soothing. This is the end of a hiking trail.  Trees have been beset by goddamn pine beetles, which is why they're so red.  There was a storm blowing over, which is why the sky was so dark, and perfect lighting elsewhere... There's another trail a few meters to the "left" of this pic that has been closed all summer due to bear activity.  Fun times. Hope you enjoyed!

Weekly Disclaimer Thing :  Writing, like all art, is a subjective experience.  Stuff that works for me won't necessarily work for you...though I hope it does, since I'd love for everyone to succeed.  Can never have enough books to read!  Either way, take these tips with the giant grain of salt needed to season it to your liking, since I could very well be talking out my ass. So, last week was a little bit about Fiddling, and the bare bones of my editing process.  This week will be...Outlining.  (Dun dun duuuuun!) I know people hate outlining.  It can be frustrating.  But you really should outline your stories.  Really.  Even if you're a born Pantser, you should still outline just a little bit.  It makes things so much faster . Which reminds me, I really need to re-outline my current WIP, since I'm getting lost in the middle. And that's the thing - the outline can change.  If you're in the middle of writing what you've faithfully plot