Events, Announcements, and Note to Spammers
EVENT: If you’re looking for a fun Christmas program…my whole family is involved in one on Sunday AM, December 20. It’s multi-generational fun for the whole family. Arlington Community Church 12/20 @ 10 a.m. 1715 W. Randol Mill Rd., Arlington, TX 76012 ANNOUNCEMENT: My independent project – WHEN THE PARTY’S OVER: Reality Fairy Tale Endings [...]
WIP – Warts and All
I did ask if anyone wanted to read parts of my work in progress. Since I did have a positive response to it. Here we go. A new experiment… The first two paragraphs ~125 words. Your question – Would you keep reading? Prince Christoph’s scream would’ve roused the entire castle – if not village – [...]
Happy Wednesday
The new StrangeWords is up. “When Good Ideas Go Bad”. It’s actually been cold the last couple of days – for Texas. Especially in the mornings and evenings. Which has meant a snuggly Elder Cat – sort of – a frisky dog, and attention spans that could be longer. I’m giving my anthology story one [...]
Honesty, Transparency, and Lack of Word Count
I did NOT make up the writing day I missed last week for being on the road. I thought about it a lot, but I didn’t commit word count. Do I suck? No. Am I getting right back on the writing wagon? Sure am. It happens. This weekend turned out to be quite busy — [...]
Friday the 13th, the Road, and Horned Frogs
Enjoy your Friday the 13th – I continue my campaign to take the “scary” out of Friday the 13th and put it on MONDAY the 13th. And in a bit of old school spirit – GO FROGS!!! TCU is my university. They’ve had a major year this year and deserve all the cudos they’re getting. [...]
Writer – and Plot Bunny – Enabling
So, as my coffee is kicking in, and I’ve already mentioned on Twitter and Facebook about the territorialness of writers (and people in general), I was starting to think about next week’s StrangeWord post as well as what I was going to do my 250 words on (which I need to be doing now since [...]
250 words a day
Yesterday, I posted an article on StrangeWords about consistently writing a smaller number of words a day over perhaps being overwhelmed by National Novel Writing Month (NaNoMo). I read a post or two promoting this idea. I encouraged my friend who starting to hear the writing call to do this. So I decided to “walk [...]
Overall Productive Writerly Weekend
There were some new words on a new story. There were even more plot bunnies. I attended Dave Wolverton’s “Write that Novel!” workshop this weekend. And that just put the icing on the cake of inspirational butt kickings. I will be writing more. I will be working The Plan. My gathering of first readers/copyeditors is [...]
I May Be A Bad Writer
Now, before many of you start sending the “No you’re not! Keep at it!” posts (which are always welcome) that’s not what I’m getting at. Though hopefully I have your attention. I’m taking an online class through a Yahoo Group. This one is on Voice: theme, tone, etc. and how we incorporate all that into [...]
It’s Saturday – And There’s a Plan
If I can make my fingers work and stop double posting and saving stuff I don’t mean to… The plan thusly – besides not leaving the house today and taking multiple naps… (and not to be completed this weekend – just in the VERY near future) The Orphaned stories collection – I’m going to finish [...]
