I’ve completed the first draft of Beginnings, my PBW e-book challenge short story entry. I plan to complete revisions by next Sunday — it needs some bite. I’ve signed up for FM’s Outline Marathon this week — I have to jot down some thoughts for this year’s NaNoWriMo entry, 30 … Continue reading →
Tambo has a great post today, featuring an excerpt from C.E. Murphy (motivated by 17 Important Things if You Want to Be A Freelancer), on “It’s Just Work.†I started doing a comment but realized it was going to get lengthy. Here’s my comment: This post makes me wonder what … Continue reading →
For those of you unfamiliar with my sentient polar bear character, Inuit (pronounced Eye-Knew-It), you almost caught a fresh glimpse of her today. I returned from my successful road trip and caught her ready to make a post. Now that I’ve imported her “Polar Bear on the Loose” posts into … Continue reading →
I just decided to do a little road trip first thing in the morning. I’m going to run up to Anniston and back. May or may not be worth it. We’ll see. Nothing new to report here. Still trying to find a hook for my e-book story to make it … Continue reading →
I binged at Amazon.com this week. Oh, my. Did I ever. Books. CDs. DVDs. iPod’s 8G nano. A case. Lee Child (five of them — and I’ve never read him before; he better be good), Sasha White, Maria Giordano, Vikram Seth, and Brandilyn Collins for the books. The Kyle Eastwood … Continue reading →
I have a generic little story for PBW’s e-Book challenge. I’ve called it Beginnings, because this is the story of how Nikki and Jeff met. It’s important for little reasons. But it doesn’t seem important enough to grab anyone and compel them to read it — or, more importantly, to … Continue reading →
Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian readers and friends.
Continue reading →I’ve designed a cover for my PBW e-Book challenge story. I found the slide picture at iStockphoto.
Continue reading →I finally took the plunge and imported Blogger posts from both blogs I had over there today. Polar Bear on the Loose is written by my character Inuit. Her posts are categorized under PBOTL — The Blog. Rantings and Ravings for Twilight has been imported and categorized under Twilight Notes. … Continue reading →
Oh, dear. I was writing along this morning and realized I needed to make a map. I have a fictional town, and I don’t know where everything is. I have a general idea, but now I need specifics. I know my real and on-line friends have resources for this. Off … Continue reading →