Booking through Thursday: Friendship and Banning

Booking through Thursday this week:
Suggested by Marsha:
Buy a Friend a Book Week is October 1-7 (as well as the first weeks of January, April, and July). During this week, you’re encouraged to buy a friend a book for no good reason. Not for their birthday, not because it’s a holiday, not to cheer them up–just [...]

Tales from the inbox

So, I finished judging a bunch of contest entries right at the moment Darcy sent me the revised version of Geek Girl’s Guide (breathe, breathe, no pressure) for my turn to edit. And I do mean, right at that exact moment. It was like we synchronized our atomic watches.
Because I’m all about making the most productive [...]

Super Quiz Monday

And just for fun on a Monday:

Your Superpower Should Be Mind Reading

You are brilliant, insightful, and intuitive.
You understand people better than they would like to be understood.
Highly sensitive, you are good at putting together seemingly irrelevant details.
You figure out what’s going on before anyone knows that anything is going on!
Why you would be a [...]

Contemplation

I did the insane the other day. I entered The Fine Art of Holding Your Breath(MacKenna’s story) in the Golden Heart. I only have ~17,000 words in the first person version so far. The receive-by deadline is December 3rd.
So. Yeah. External pressure. Insanity. Same thing.
I’m also contemplating my “education” plan for next year. Last year [...]

Reader, I married him

Over on Romancing the Blog, they’re talking about point of view, which is kind of like shouting fire in a crowded theater. I never understood the prejudice against first person point of view in stories. As one Noodler gal astutely noted: it’s simply one way to tell a story, not the Antichrist.
Still, it gets people [...]

Tuesday Night Lights

As the web site for Andrew’s football league likes to remind me:
The Season is on!!!
This fact needs to be emphasized with three exclamation points.

So, as you can see, the season is on. (!!!) Sadly, the season isn’t always as sunny like in this picture. Last night, Andrew’s team played on the high school field. The [...]

Promises in the dark

Chekhov called it the gun on the wall. Bill Johnson, in his writing craft book, A Story is a Promise, called it just that. When you hang a gun on the wall in Act I, you promise that it will go off sometime before Act III. (And you know, even when I see a literal gun [...]

Yes. That. Exactly

 If you’re on a writing list, you’ve probably seen this already. If not … (does take bandwidth).

I’ve been in writing workshops with this person.

That time I TP-ed George Clooney’s house

My (very) short story, TP-ing Case de Clooney is up on The Long and the Short of It review site as their Thrifty Thursday short story (it will be on that page for a week, then archived).
This is the story that made the honorable mention list in the Women on Writing Flash Fiction contest, the [...]

When names and romance novels collide

Borrowing shamelessly from Chris at Book-A-Rama.
Go to the advanced book search on Amazon, type your first name into the Title field, and post the most interesting/amusing cover that shows up.
There were a few tempting titles, like: When Charity Destroys Dignity (I’m sorry) and The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International [...]