I’m seriously bummed.  Our local Barnes and Noble is closing at the end of this month, which is just a week away.  It is depressing to go in there now to see dismantled shelves stacked up in the back half of the store.  We have made an effort to stock up on a number of […]

I have been posting here three times a week for nearly a year, and for half a year before that twice a week. This is post number 180 and I need to scale things back just a little bit. I never expected that writing a blog would be so satisfying, but it has come at […]

Tuesday is when I tackle some Five Sentence Fiction. Feel free to take Lillie McFerrin’s challenge to write a five sentence story based on a single word prompt. The word does not have to appear in your five sentences, just used for direction. This week’s word is Purple. Here is my offering: It was dark beyond belief. […]

I did this before a while back. I thought it was great fun and I’ve decided to resurrect this interactive writing exercise. If you missed it the first time around, the idea is to build a collaborative story one sentence at a time—a writers’ game of tag. I hope to get more people playing along […]

Life is a web of interconnecting events. Our paths cross and brush up against one another before we each head off in our own unique direction. Sometimes when paths converge we wobble a bit and the contact sometimes knocks us slightly off course sending us into an unintended orbit. I am fascinated by those direction-changing […]