Category: Random
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October 2019 IWSG
October 2 question – It’s been said that the benefits of becoming a writer who does not read is that all your ideas are new and original. Everything you do is an extension of yourself, instead of a mixture of you and another author. On the other hand, how can you expect other people to…
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Time Enough?
How does one make time? Is there a spell for that? Do you pray to Chronos while sacrificing a rubber chicken to the black hole at the center of our galaxy? A recipe, maybe? Blend 2 cups anti-matter, 5 fairy wings with the tongue of a ladybug, then cook for 8 plank times on high?…
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IWSG July 2019
What personal traits have you written into your character(s)? Umm… I think the list would be shorter if we asked what personal traits I didn’t write into my characters. I’ve used so many things – my personal faith, my outlooks on what a relationship should and shouldn’t be, my mule-headed tendency to try and do…
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Pain and Stress, Vol. 1
I’d had it. I’d lost my damn mind. My children each have their own rooms. My husband has a 12×20 cave that barely holds all of his stuff. He also has a 2×6 table and associated space in the front room for his small medical things because there’s no room in his Superfund site to…
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Summer Break
Summer Break is here, which means that my little monkeys are at home. All the time. We’re not that far in and it’s already driving me nuts. This is the last summer for the super-cheap local Day-Camp held by the community center, starting in June and running through July. Next summer, they will be too…
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Stories With Minds Of Their Own
One of the reasons I don’t plot, is because sometimes most of the time my stories develop a life of their own. I know where it starts, and I know where it will end. HOW it gets there and HOW it ends is a different matter entirely. My second Romance book is an example of…
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