I have decided to pause my Saturday series until the New Year. I will still post so stay tuned for more Seasonal offerings in the coming weeks. The Christmas decorations will be going up, time will be spent with family and friends, and I will be walking around enjoying all the wonderful light displays that […]
Weapons in my Armoury – on pause for the Holidays Read More
This is the third week of the National Write a Novel in a Month (NANOWRIMO) contest. The goal is to write 50,000 words in the month of November. That is an average of 1667 words per day. And…..I’m behind. At one point, this past weekend I was 10,000 words behind. But as of the start of
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In a boot camp class for NANOWRIMO 2012, I first learned the power of a writing prompt. We started every session with a twenty-minute writing warm-up using a prompt the instructor wrote on the chalkboard. The very first prompt, on the very first class turned into the opening page of the novel I started that
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I don’t have any pets (I am told that dust bunnies – despite their seemingly life-like movement across floors – do not count). But after spending time with the dogs of friends and family I have adopted a very canine trait. And that is their tendency to be easily distracted by something, even at the