Jane Austen's Fight Club

It's my Blogaversary!

Exactly one year ago today, Nancy Drew Too rolled out its first blog post! It’s my blogaversary! It’s a birthday!  I followed my writing buddies Kathan, Darksculptures, and Dayner into the blog pool and we started swimming. In the deep end.

Little did I realize at the time how much y’all would    [Continue reading]

Road Trip 101, or the Wasatch Dairy Farm

I’m back…..

A and I took a 2 ½ week road trip, during which I intended to post occasional nuggets from the road that wended its way up through North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, and then back down to North Carolina.

Well, the road trip to anywhere is paved    [Continue reading]

Friday Flash

Here’s a little context-setting for today’s Flash. Yesterday my writing buddy Kathan posted her search for a character, Looking for my next character. Writing buddy Dayner posed the challenge to write Friday Flashes around one of the characters Kathan saw at Starbucks.

Could I resist? Of course not. But I couldn’t pick    [Continue reading]

Public Service Announcement

This one’s for mothers of teenagers. Dayner? DS? Sorry I didn’t get this out on Mom’s Day. I’d spent most of the night in the hospital emergency room with my neighbor and was pretty tired, but probably not as tired as she was. Eoew, I’d forgotten how much head wounds    [Continue reading]

I'll be back.....

I know I haven’t posted anything in a week, and that reading my blog is generally the high point of your day. heh heh

I’ve been really busy with a motley assortment of stuff, most of which does not, unfortunately, involve writing the Great American Novel. Trust me, I’ll be back soon.

xoxox

Writing? Marketing? Writing? Marketing?

When I started blogging in earnest last year, I thought I’d share smatterings of my writing, talk about writing issues and have, if I was lucky, maybe half a dozen writing buddies to compare notes with and prop me up during writing crises and National Novel Writing month. Which is pretty much what    [Continue reading]

Conversation Stoppers 101

Two things:
1. I should probably keep my mouth shut more often.
2. But if I don’t, I need to make sure I have my little notebook with me so I can write stuff down. Like I did on Sunday.

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So I notice this license plate on the ferry: HA INC. It’s from one of those    [Continue reading]

Sunday & Songkran

Here’s my Sunday world, in about 25 miles and five hours.

The yoga babes connect and head for the 10:15 ferry, which is currently at the “yellow” threat level, according to TSA. Given how peaceful it is here on the water, I’m inclined to think that refers to the yellow-green pollen, which is coating    [Continue reading]

Friday Flash Fiction

“That your dog?” He laughed at the dirty hound licking crumbs and gravel off the sidewalk next to the outdoor café. She could see its ribs; dried blood stuck to a jagged scratch along its flank.

The only dog here is this date, she thought.

“Yes,” she said as she stood up.    [Continue reading]