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...

The Handwritten Challenge #1

The letter I received from  my friend Writer In Transit  contained two challenges.  I'm pretty sure she meant to offer me a choice, but ...

The Beauty of Handwritten Letters

How long has it been since you wrote or received a handwritten letter? When I was in my early twenties I had one of those annihilating love ...

Killer Character Blogfest -- Challenge #3: Antagonist

El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera (Love In Times of Cholera, or Love In The Time of Cholera) Florentino Ariza met Fermina Daza one slow afte...

Killer Character Blogfest -- Challenge #2: The All-Important Protag

Being a protagonist is hard.  Everything hinges on you: story, action, conflict—to top it off, there’s no privacy.  All your foibles, your d...

Killer Character Blogfest -- Challenge #1: Supporting Character

Welcome to the  Killer Character Blogfest!   Everyone is postulating for their favorite supporting character today--visit  this link  to tak...

Talk of Dreams...

For twenty five years (or more) this monologue has haunted me...  I know a few passages from Shakespeare, but this one I can recite without ...

Bluebell Books Short Story Slam -- Week 12

I'm back to the Bluebell Books Short Story Slam for this week--finally!  This is a blogger share-fair that I really missed, because the ...

Rescheduling Life and The Carpe Diem Lesson

"Carpe Diem" by Claudia Alves | RedBubble http://www.redbubble.com/people/claualves/art/3380674-carpe-diem It's funny how sync...

Six Sentence Sunday (Oct. 16)

So...  I'm back for Six Sunday .  Sorry for the hiatus.  I had a busy September...  Quit my day job (yes, to write...  How incredibly im...

NaNoWriMo 2011 (For Dummies)

I signed up for  NaNoWriMo 2011 .  Crazy and disjointed?  Sure, but hey--why not?  This is the year when I decided to take writing seriously...