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I first posted this story exactly a year ago. As Super Bowl Sunday approaches, it seems worth posting again, even though posting it pretty much nails it that no one will be inviting us over for a Super Bowl party, Tom Brady or no. Oh well. Anyhow, here it is. Maybe I’ll finish writing my reflections [Continue reading] I guess the day you renew your driver’s license and they snap that picture that will follow you around for the next 8 years BEFORE you get the black eye qualifies as a good day, right? Yeah. Yesterday I had an appointment to go in and prove to the DMV examiner that I knew the difference between [Continue reading] I obviously haven’t been in blog-land much lately. I’ve been editing my WIP and frankly, if I follow much more of the (good) writing advice/models I’ve been reading lately, there won’t be much of the damn thing left for anyone else to read. Hint Fiction (props to Merrilee Faber for the heads-up on [Continue reading] All eyes were on Deirdre when she walked into the room. She hated times like this. Those stares, what they were thinking behind their glassy eyes – always made her uncomfortable. Wet circles began forming under her armpits. Great. Now they could make fun of her hygiene as well as her clothes, her [Continue reading] Kris and Kel, the fabulous Paper Rats from Inside the Writers’ Studio, asked a number of bloggers to cross-post their holiday interview with Craig Lancaster today. Craig sounds like an interesting guy and the interview provides a wide-spread opportunity to support a worthwhile charity at the same time — how could I refuse an offer [Continue reading] I was honored, flattered and just plain excited when the lovely and talented Paper Rats, Kris and R.J., invited me Inside the Writers’ Studio for an interview. ME? They wanted to interview me? YES! So here’s the link to today’s interview: Natasha Drew on mystery, muses, and Joyce Carol Oates. [Continue reading] I wish I could do Merrilee Faber‘s and Jon Harahan‘s writing the justice they deserve this morning, but I just keep typing blather. ::pours another cup of java and dives in anyway, blather be damned:: Merrilee posted some of her clear-headed wisdom in A short story primer a few days ago. As usual, her ideas were [Continue reading] 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] So where am I with my Creativity Workshop goals, my One Story Per Week plan? I’ve already admitted that I didn’t write a single word during my vacation. My bad. But I do have a couple of semi-stories in the hopper from my ‘Breaking the rules/breaking the law’ segment — again, more [Continue reading] “I want those to go, too.” She pointed to the row of rosebushes, yellow and red blossoms bobbing in the breeze. “Ma’am?” The bushes were healthy, lush, and while he wasn’t a flower man himself, he was sure someone had lavished a great deal of care on them, and recently, too. She smiled and [Continue reading] |
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