Life Happens

Let’s rewind to mid-November. I was actively working on my novel every day. I was optimistically hoping I could keep up the pace and finish by the end of the year. Well, what happened? LIFE! A family emergency took my full attention for over a week. I tried to write a little in the midst [...]

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I must restrain my optimism.

I somehow found myself with no opportunity this past weekend to write. (Except for a half hour window that I spent checking my email for the only time during the weekend) I was very frustrated because I have lots of ideas that I want to get down. Hopefully, I can manage to write extra today [...]

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My Unofficial National Novel Writing Month

I  participated in NoWriMo last year and came nowhere near to finishing, particularly because I changed my mind about a lot of things mid-way. I REALLY had to go back and edit. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have finished anyway, because I’m pretty slow and perfectionist about just about everything I do. I’m just glad [...]

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Excuses, Ideas, and a Soundtrack

Well, It’s been over two months since I last posted. My computer got fried by lightning about two months ago. It was an iMac, and our back up computer is an old Gateway laptop. It’s just not the same. I haven’t gotten over it enough to get back to writing. I know that’s a really [...]

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My First & Last Story

Well, it’s not my first and I certainly hope it’s not my last. It’s actually my entry for last week’s NovelDoctor contest. His challenges are so much fun. We were given three first sentences & three last sentences to choose among. Here’s what I chose. First sentence: Somewhere between roof and the pavement, Sam remembered [...]

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The Word I Never Knew (A Short Story)

Well, here’s the story I promised to post that I wrote for NPR’s Three-Minute Fiction contest. I’m couldn’t come up with a good title, so I finally decided just to call it “Choices”.  I’m still not satisfied with that though. I’d like to hear what others think of it. I’ll have another short to put [...]

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Three-Minute Fiction

I actually did enter that NPR contest that I mentioned before. I surely don’t expect to win, but it was a good writing exercise. The only specifications for the contest were that the story had to be no more than 500-600 words long. I’m not so great at coming up with ideas, so I wasn’t [...]

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My Very Short Story Edited

Today,  my entry was featured by the NovelDoctor on his blog. He showed my original, plus two rewrites as he would change it. He also gave some comments about why he made those changes. Read it here. I liked what he did and have no major objections. You can read my comments to his post [...]

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A Very Short Story

Part of the “reading about writing” I’ve been doing lately is on the NovelDoctor blog. It’s a fairly new blog written by an editor, Stephen Parolini. While informative, it is also very entertaining. He recently had a contest challenging his readers to write a scene, 200 words, including a wristwatch. I decided to enter it, [...]

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4 Months Later

Wow! I’ve been really bad. It had been so long since I even logged on that I had to reset my password. I guess it doesn’t matter, because nobody reads my blog anyway. (If you’re out there, leave me a comment so I know.) What’s going on now? I’ve gotten sick of putting things off [...]

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