CW -- the final stretch

The Creativity Workshop is coming to an official end – and this is where those graduation speech sentiments come into play: the end of something meaningful, but more importantly, the launch pad for something newer, more exciting, bigger. blah blah blah.

Well, yeah…

I belong to a women’s group that meets monthly on the Tuesday night    [Continue reading]

Sunday Short: Nectar

(Thank you Wordle for the Word Cloud!)

She stirred the pitcher of sugar-water and smiled. Oh, her hummingbirds surely did love this sweet nectar! And the bees – some days she believed they swarmed under the trees in the back yard, just waiting for her to fill the feeders and the cups    [Continue reading]

Friday Flash Fiction

The whole trailer shook when JimBob slammed the door on his way out.

“Berneice, that man gonna explode from mad one of these days. And with his heart — Uh uh.”

Berneice kept stirring the gravy; JimBob didn’t like it lumpy.

“Well, Lord’ll decide that one. I just try and help Him along as best    [Continue reading]

A little piece of my NaNoWriMo….

Here is a piece of my NaNoWriMo writing. As I’ve mentioned, I have two different tones that may — or may not — fit together. This piece just rolled out and I only changed a couple of words where it was confusing since you didn’t have the preceding 20,000 words. And    [Continue reading]

The beat goes on. and on.

This morning, Day Three of NaNoWriMo, I seemed to be somewhere that Chris Baty says should be the realm of Week Two. That would be the infamous ’storm cloud’ scenario.

I was plodding along and realized that Becca, protagonist and my own personal alter-ego, was an insufferable little prick who was boring the pants off    [Continue reading]