Category: Blog
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Experimental Writing
Image by WikiImages from Pixabay I tried an experiment with last week’s Friday Flash; you’ll have to let me know how I did. (You can read it here.) I saw an ad from Jim Butcher (Dresden Files, Codex Alera, Cinder Spires novels) for Mythulu Creation Cards. Near as I could tell, they were a random…
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Missed Opportunities
~ A friend of mine once told me a story about an old woman during a flood. She prayed and prayed and prayed to the Lord for help. Soon after this a big truck with wheels high enough to get through the flood waters came by. The woman refused to get in saying, “The Lord…
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Mother’s Day
Image by Aline Ponce from Pixabay It’s been a crazy week. No writing done. At all. Sorry about missing the Friday flash fiction, I have something in progress, but I won’t have time to finish it until tomorrow. I do have a few thoughts I would like to share. As many of you know, I’ve…
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The Small Everyday Deeds of Ordinary Folk
Last week’s Flash Fiction Friday was a larger accomplishment than just the 250 word story. So you will excuse me if I celebrate for a moment. Maybe I’ll give you a reason to celebrate something in your life? When I posted the link to the group the week before, I added a note that while…
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Risk, Reward, and a Really Bad Haiku
My husband laughed at my writing yesterday. Yes, laughed. No, that’s not nearly as mean as it sounds. Frankly, I deserved it. This week’s flash fiction had me trying out a haiku (you can read it here if you dare), that Japanese poetry form that involves nature, and seventeen syllables. The picture has a squirrel…
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Bring on the dreaded red ink!
Ok, so it’s been a while since I’ve done a blog post. It’s not that I have no thoughts on anything, it’s the reverse, I have too many! I’ve had some terrific conversations with people lately, and I need to focus and get some of these down in ink… or maybe ones and zeros. To…