Well, it’s almost Christmas, and I think I promised a catch-up back in September. That just means I haven’t changed, right?
Bryan arrived today, having finished his finals and a long work week. We have two weeks until he goes back. Fun time! Christmas will be at the Peters’, some Irish friends here, and then we’re [...]
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I’m Ba-ack!
Posted in Ireland, church, family, genealogy, writing on December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
2nd Place in Flash Fiction Contest
Posted in Ireland, writing on July 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So I have a challenge for you. Write a story as if you were entering the contest. Post it here as a comment (or email it to me), and I’ll e-mail you mine in return.
Here’s the first paragraph. It’s a little clunky, but you have to include it as the opening of your story. No [...]
NaNoWriMo Ends
Posted in writing, tagged creative writing, fiction writing, nanowrimo, national novel writing month, novel writing on December 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s official. The November craziness of National Novel Writing Month is over. My gray progress bar turned gradually to blue as I accumulated words, and 50,444 words later, it flashed green–I won! Then when the validation process opened up on Nov. 25th and I uploaded my words, it turned purple with a big “WINNER!” inside [...]
NaNoWriMo: Idiotic Plot Twists
Posted in writing, tagged fiction, nanowrimo, national novel writing month, novel writing, writing, writing fiction on November 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There are those doing NaNoWriMo strictly for the fun and challenge. And there are those who are hoping for a workable manuscript out of it. Both kinds of writers find “idiotic plot twists” showing up when their imaginations take over. Here’s a sampling from a forum thread that left me rolling on the floor.
(MC = [...]
NaNoWriMo Begins!
Posted in writing, tagged nanowrimo, national novel writing month, novel writing, writing, writing fiction on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I’ve done it. It’s not as crazy as it would have been for me to try it last year, but I’ve signed up for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). The gist of it is to write at least 50,000 words of a novel from scratch, between November 1 and November 30. It means turning [...]
What is Suite101.com?
Posted in writing, tagged final draft, novel writing, suite 101, Suite101, writing fiction, writing tips on October 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Most of you know that I’m the feature writer for “Writing Fiction” at Suite101.com. As such, I write regular articles on that topic, but I can write about anything else I want as well. Most recently I did a series on revising novel manuscripts:
Revising a Novel: the Importance of Structure
Tips on Major Character Revision
Plot Revision [...]
Trying again
Posted in Ireland, writing on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t tried to post anything since I had major problems when we first got here–every time I tried to upload pictures, it locked the computer up. So if this works, I’ll post those as well.
Yesterday was all I imagined for being in Ireland and having time to write. After weeks and weeks of overcast [...]
Another Editor’s Choice Award
Posted in writing, tagged fiction, non-fiction, Suite101, writing on April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I just received my sixth Editor’s Choice award in Suite 101’s Writing & Publishing section. It’s for an article called “Complex Scope of Writing a Novel: Motivation, Intimidation and the Dreaded Writer’s Block” that I posted last week. It’s based partly on what I’ve been learning from the fiction workshop I’m taking and the freewriting [...]
Reviewing Avi’s new book
Posted in books, writing, tagged Avi, children's writing, fiction, writing on March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Cool stuff happening! Avi is a Newbery-winning children’s author, and I just got a request from his publicist asking if I would like to review his upcoming book on writing, “A Beginning, a Muddle, and an End” for Suite101.
She’s sending the review copy (it won’t be out until April), but she also asked about stats for [...]
Children’s poems off to a contest
Posted in writing, tagged children's poems, poetry, writing, writing contests on March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I subscribe to Children’s Writer, a newsletter for, well, children’s writers. They have two contests a year, and the most recent one was for a set of children’s poems. I write children’s fiction, and sometimes try my hand at non-fiction, but have never done poetry.
So I noodled a few ideas in my head, preschool-oriented, and [...]
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