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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]

CW - Update on goals & progress

So where am I along my Creativity Workshop path? According to the original plan, I should be starting my last of four stories centering around a specific place and time: post-Hurricane Ike Galveston Texas. Am I there?

Nah. I realized during my week in Texas that there was Absolutely No Time [Continue reading]

Friday Flash Fiction

This one came out of a short conversation I had with an airline seatmate last week. She’d slept most of the flight, and I only got to talk with her after the plane actually landed. She was in her late 20’s, probably, and she’d just come from visiting her sister, who was a couple of [Continue reading]

CW - Creativity Workshop Goals -- Diving In

Oh. My. I’m far behind and I’ve barely started. Can I do this?

::Holds nose and gets ready to dive.::

::Dives::

::Re-emerges, breathes, shakes water out of brain.::

Here goes:

Weeks 1 – 4: The role of ‘place’ in a story

As a relatively new Southerner, I’m constantly amazed at how much the change in latitude has changed [Continue reading]

Now what, indeed!

Well, imitation is supposed to be the highest form of flattery, so here’s to Dayner. As I learned from reading her most recent post this morning, Dayner had already written a post titled ‘Now What?’ AND used the same picture I used in my post yesterday! Honest, Dayner, I wasn’t plagiarizing! I [Continue reading]

The darker side of my NaNoWriMo writing

Here’s another excerpt from my writing that is quite different in tone from the excerpt I posted earlier. I’m not sure how — and if — the two elements can come together successfully, and that will be one of the challenges starting in December. I’m also trying to write a little about homelessness and that [Continue reading]

License to write

Lots of people in North Carolina pay big bucks for personality license plates. I don’t understand it but, hey, it’s a free country. So at noon today I was cruising down Independence when an SUV with the license plate EDIT passed me.

I wanted to yell out the window, “No, dammit, WRITE. [Continue reading]

Thank you, Lynda Barry!

I thought her NaNo pep talk was interesting. I loved this piece of wisdom: “You can’t know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we’re reading or writing.”

That seems to be true for me. I can give you a one-sentence description of most of my NaNo [Continue reading]