Someone once said that to be a successful and productive writer, one had to do the equivalent of “cutting bait, fishing, and reeling ‘em in, all at the same time”! This translates to writing as working on projects-in-progress while at the same time submitting completed projects to potential markets and also continuing to cultivate new ideas for future projects. In case you missed my previous post on this subject, at the end of every month I compile a list of what I accomplished as far as ... View Post
October the 4th Is Not Too Late
The title of this post is based on the title of the book "October the First Is Too Late", by Fred Hoyle. One of the many books of my late grandfather's which I read many years in the past, and thoroughly enjoyed. One of the books responsible for the fact I now write primarily in the genre of science fiction. It is also possibly partially responsible for my interest in science-y things in general. However, this post is not about it being too late. This post is specifically about the fact ... View Post
Writing Prompt Wednesday: Defining "Loblolly"
Something a little different this week! This started as purely for random fun, when a friend of mine (agirlwhowrites, in fact) posted the Word of the Day on her Facebook page and offered Life Points for anyone who could come up with the best sentence using that word. At first, I wasn't going to attempt it. But when no one else seemed to seriously rise to challenge, I thought, "Well, why not give it a whirl?" In the end, I had so much fun coming up with a sentence for each definition ... View Post
Writing Pompt Wednesday: "Nightmare or Opportunity", a found poem.
by contrast, a hyper-functional machine increasingly quixotic expanding across the miles built largely on miracles - a foil to fake glitz global urbanization sprawling landfill inspired by spacious character not sustainable resistant to experimental work, threatening to locate the beauty in urban debris the ideal vision cooled - a toxic mix of nightmare... or opportunity? (From a Smithsonian magazine article on the architect Koolhaas.) ... View Post
A Crash Course in Twitterdom, from an Admitted Twitterphobe.
Twitterdom and Twitterphobe? They're real words. Promise. Now I'll admit, I'm not that young. But then again, I'm not that old, either. I treasured my LiveJournal community (and still do, to be honest. I miss it something fierce!), and only crawled over to MySpace and then on to Facebook after much kicking and screaming. After that traumatic ordeal, I refused Twitter and later Tumblr. I only very recently gave in to Pinterest, life-sucking machine that it is. After learning how to ... View Post
Writing Prompt Wednesday: "The First Crosswalker", a very short short story.
A new short story has been brewing in my head for the past few days. So, for today's Wednesday Prompt, I decided to just jot down a random something in the universe of this new short story, featuring one of the main characters (the First Crosswalker). Below is the result. This is meant to be a type of backstory, I suppose, or maybe even a lead-in to what will be the actual story eventually. Not entirely sure yet. But I had a lot of fun with this, and I'm really looking forward to getting on ... View Post
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