Mantra for 2012--By Chuck Wendig

The Second Writer's Prayer, from Revenge Of The Pen Monkey , by awesome Chuck Wending.  Found it on  TerribleMinds , Chuck's blog, a...

The Lost Pleasure of Reading (For a Writer)

In an  interview with Joselyn Vaughn  on  Amy Corwin's blog  (do check out the interview--great stuff, great author), something came up ...

Vaclav Havel: The Notion of Identity

Bon voyage, Vaclav Havel--and thank you. That Shakespearean Rag  has a great post on Vaclav Havel's passing  here --go ahead and read it...

Defining Right And Wrong

While discussing my WIP, Restoring Experience, with some really excellent beta readers, a question came up that I thought would be interesti...

Six Sentence Sunday (December 18)

Welcome to  Six Sentence Sunday !  Hard to believe that next week it'll be Christmas already, but there you have it--2012 is done, ladie...

Mischievous Moonlight Published Today!

The wonderful folks at  Fiction365  graciously published my story,  Mischievous Moonlight , as their feature today.  Hop on over and take a ...

Bad day? Blow something up.

No, not really.  But  Janet Reid  posted this on her blog and I just HAD to share it. Please don't blow anything up.  And yes, it's ...

Six Sentence Sunday (December 11)

And... another  Six Sentence Sunday !  This is the last excerpt I share from Chapter 7 of the WIP (Restoring Experience)--next week you'...

Six Sentence Sunday (December 4)

It's December already, people.  Where'd the year go?  Can't say it hasn't been productive--I quit my office job, writing ful...

White Christmas in Curaçao

Yes!  This year Curacao hosts a white Christmas, thanks to Simon Kewing of  Spellmaking .  Ok, maybe not all Curacao, but in THIS blog it...

NaNoWriMo 2011 Winner--Yes, That's Me!

I cannot believe I did it.   I logged in 50,582 words at the NaNoWriMo word count verifier a few minutes ago .  Over 50K words in less than ...

Six Sentence Sunday (November 27)

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.  I thought of you all last Thursday, you lucky people with big turkey dinners on your tables, surroun...

Bluebell Books Short Story Slam -- Week 15

And because there is no time--that's why I'm here, he said. I don't understand, I said. You don't have to.  It's just ab...

On Gratitude

Ah...  All you turkey-lovers, I salute you.  I imagine you sitting around a huge, totally loaded table, surrounded by family and friends, mo...

Six Sentence Sunday (November 20)

One more six-sentence snippet from Chapter 7 of  the WIP (Restoring Experience) , a novel about loss and the search for meaning to give that...

The Vagaries of (Verb) Tense Consistency

Another fantastic list from  The Writer's Resource , this time on verb tense consistency.  Their post today on  Maintaining Verb Consist...

The NaNo Blog Hop

Somewhere in the backlog of Google Reader posts I'm trying so hard to keep up with, I found a reference to a NaNo blog hop...   And I th...

NaNoWriMo Update

Whoa...  Broke 30K last night.  Thirty thousand eighty words, according to the NaNo word count verifier. Of course, according to ol' Scr...

I discovered authonomy

No, it's not a typo.   Authonomy , although HarperCollins spells it without the initial cap.  What is it?  It's a website where auth...

Six Sentence Sunday (November 13)

Welcome, Six-Sundayers!  Thanks for visiting Quiet Laughter today.  Today's six are the continuation of the conversation between Michael...

More on Revision

I really shouldn't be posting about this now.  I should be focused on NaNo, writing like crazy...  But this post  I just found, from Jan...

More Awards!

Brilliant blogger and darkish author E.R. King of  Get Busy Writing  passed me the Liebster Blog award, the Versatile Blogger Award and the ...

Revision, revision, revision

I found this excellent post on  The Writer's Resource  (if you write and you're not following that blog boo  for you) with links to ...

Six Sentence Sunday (November 6)

First Six Sentence Sunday  of November!  In spite of NaNo (I'm at around 10K there--yay!) I managed to remember to enter the link on tim...

Six Sentence Sunday (Oct. 23)

And...  One more week of Six Sentence Sunday .  I'm getting into the habit, although it's still a challenge to PICK the six sentence...

The Handwritten Challenge #2

The second prompt of the  Handwritten-Letter Adventure  challenge I received from  Michelle at Writer In Transit  was thus: "Write a pi...