FINDING YOUR WRITING COMMUNITY
Do You Know Where Your Writing Community Is? It’s Con Season for me. A busy time. In the past few weeks, I have attended two Science Fiction Fantasy Conventions (MileHi…
Do You Know Where Your Writing Community Is? It’s Con Season for me. A busy time. In the past few weeks, I have attended two Science Fiction Fantasy Conventions (MileHi…
For this month’s blog post, I used a random word generator to create a five-word writing prompt, which I used to write a poem. Yes, it went dark very quickly.…
Connecting the dots between characters, tension, and being bitten. Sounds like a stretch, I know. But my writing brain can’t help itself. A week ago, last Friday, our cat was…
Every now and then I recall a refrain from my past. When I think back on my time in boot camp, I hear the echo of voices saying, “Skinner did…
I know a little bit about writing emotion that cuts deep. Most authors do. How can we not? When I tell people I am a writer, I get the usual…
LISTENING AND FOLLOWING* If you listen to your own voice unknown friends will come and find you. –Carl Jung The Voices in My Head People often ask me where my…
Shipboard Pranks: Mail Buoys, Sea Bats, Water Line, and Monkey Shit I learned a lot of new things during my time aboard ship. A Westpac cruise is filled with all…