While this story focuses mainly upon me, it was my mother’s favorite story about me. I do remember doing this, and I remember my mother listening very intensely to me. What I didn’t know I found out years and years later. It took every ounce of mother power in her soul to not laugh at …
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Snippet #4
So this might be the last snippet from the original novel I worked on over the month of November as part of NaNoWriMo (which, yay, I won!). It’s the introduction of another main character who will come to play a large part in the overall plot. She is a warrior woman – human – and …
Snippet #3
Greetings friends! I didn’t forget about this blog. I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to be on vacation for the past couple of weeks. Our friends celebrated their 20th anniversary by taking a cruise for two weeks through the Panama Canal, and we got to join them. To say it was amazing is an understatement. I’m …
NaNo Snippet #2
This is not a continuation of where I left off. I can’t give you EVERYthing, can I? I think I’m going to enjoy this new character I added. Well, the two new characters that were introduced since we left off. Not much context, I’m sorry. I just liked the exchange. And I really need to …
NaNo snippet
Below is what probably will be the opening to the novel I’m working on for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). If you don’t know, NaNoWriMo is a global event that challenges writers to write 50,000 words in the month of November. I participated the last three years and won the challenge each year – but …
The Old Dirt Road
I’m having a lot of fun with these prompts. I have failed the last couple of times in keeping under the 1000 word limit, but that – admittedly – is one of my biggest problems. Once I start writing, I tend to keep writing and the next thing I know, I have 10,000 words when …
The Grater
I went off another prompt today. It intrigued me, because I’ve read some fiction and non-fiction about Tenement living in New York City in the early part of the 20th century. It’s fascinating to read about, though heart-breaking of course. I think that’s why this prompt appealed to me. Thank you to Anthony for help …
The Cave
I decided, after that dark entry last week, to return to something slightly more light-hearted. I took a prompt from a list of prompts given during a writing competition. I didn’t participate, but the prompts were posted online. Participants were given a genre, location, and object to use in their short story. I used this …
Please, Just Tell Me I’m Not a Lost Cause
I went dark with this writing prompt. I’m not sure where in my psyche this developed. Nothing like this has happened to me, though I know there were points in my life where someone has cried for help and I was too unaware to realize it for what it was. This is also a complete …
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The Hair Pie Story
My father was sick for most of his life. He had an auto-immune blood disease that has a ridiculously long name that I can barely spell. The disease affected his immune system so he had difficulty fighting off infections and colds – with the result that almost every cold he caught developed into pneumonia. Dad …
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