What are we reading now?
More than a year later–a year of loss, of blessing, of many lessons learned–here we are again, discussing fiction together. Has your taste in fiction changed? Do you, like me,… Read more »
Category: fiction
The Rule Breaker
Here’s my take on the writing prompt I posted 9/12/16 on Facebook. Hope you had fun writing your own story and that I get to read it soon! The Rule… Read more »
Stories for Our Grandchildren
Here’s the thing about having grandchildren…you’re still thinking about reading your children to sleep at night and somehow they’ve managed to have children of their own. You’re still wondering if… Read more »
Fiction Genres–Not Quite as Simple as I Once Thought…
Here’s what I’m finding as I read, write and pursue publication — fiction genres, those categories by which books are shelved in a bookstore, assigned to an editor or accepted… Read more »
Thanksgiving Fiction
It’s Thanksgiving morning, and before the potatoes are peeled and the yams are baked, I’m flexing my writer muscles with a bit of flash fiction. I’m doing it because I’m… Read more »
Streamline Your Submissions with this Nifty Tool
Hello to all! Still busy submitting flash fiction to literary journals, no acceptance emails to report but by the number of rejections rolling in, I should hit soon! In the… Read more »
Fiction in a Flash
So…a year later and the NaNoWriMo novel is being read by my beta readers and has gone through much revision. To keep my writing heart fresh during this birthing process,… Read more »
NaNoWriMo Success…Now What?
Eight days ago, I experienced the rush of winning my first ever NaNoWriMo. If you’ve been following the blog, you know that anyone who manages to write fifty thousand words… Read more »
NaNoWriMo – Day 10
If you’re in the midst of writing your NaNoWriMo novel, you’ll understand what I mean when I mention the ways this annual event has disrupted my life: My sleeping/waking patterns… Read more »
Holy NaNoWriMo, Batman!
I’ve done it! After all these years of promising myself I’d take the challenge to write 50,000 words of a novel during National Novel Writing Month, this is the year…. Read more »