A snippet from Special Delivery *** Bonnie found that walking down the long driveway to check the mail was a good way to get out of the house and stretch her legs every day. Her garden was dormant and peaceful under it’s light blanket of snow, but she was still restless. Six days a week,… Read More Odd Prompts: The Holly and the Ivy
You know the saying. Well, I say that it’s because of starvation. Obviously, the way to keep alive is to feed the impulse. So! Can I embed a funny story prompt? https://wuxiaphoenix.tumblr.com/post/672392916618166272/blueshelledbastard-whetstonefires-moonymango Or perhaps something that made me giggle out loud? https://wuxiaphoenix.tumblr.com/post/673026970492272640/elodieunderglass-wizardlyghost-silverjirachi
Leigh and I did a post swap – you can find my post over at StarshipCat, on maps and fiction. Wander on over and say hi! at least, and enjoy the twin essays (we didn’t talk topics or anything before doing this, which was fun). Also, Leigh has a plethora of stories on the… Read More Guest Post: A Space for Storytellers
So! I have about 3000 words written on this story this week. It set up the bit you’re about to read, and wrapped up the scene in the Red Queen’s house. You don’t get to read that just now. The thing is, I’ve been dictating, and the transcription is beyond a hot mess into… Read More Odd Prompts: Wonderland Snippet
I am always interested in what’s going on in the world, but I try to look at it through a different lens. One of those lenses is the scientific news, and when I’m looking at it, I’m often looking at it from the point of view of an author. I find it fertile ground… Read More Story Seeds of Science
The human brain is very good at one thing. Seeing patterns. We’re so good at this, as a species, that if there is no pattern, our brain will trick us into thinking that there is one. That’s where having a second opinion can be helpful, but not always. You see, if we are persuasive… Read More Irrepressibly Meaning-making Species
Written by Sanford Begley I usually write non fiction. Essays, blog posts, reports and the like. I’ve been doing it to some small extent since school. I do reasonably well, though I usually run it by a friend or two to check it before releasing it into the world. There are usually spelling and punctuation… Read More Fiction vs Nonfiction
Yesterday morning I started to feel unwell, and laid down, thinking that I could take some time and cut the con crud off at the knees. I was mistaken. By the time my husband got home from work I was a mess, and had refused to allow myself to actually sleep because I needed to… Read More Reviews: Sleeping Duty and Minivandians
I just reread a comfort book. A Louis L’Amour called A Man Called Trent. That was the magazine version of a story he reworked into The Mountain Valley War for a Bantam paperback. There isn’t enough difference between the stories to matter much, though I’m sure there is more material in the paperback version. It… Read More Reasonable Stocks
This isn’t entirely a review. Sarah asked me to write the introduction for this collection of her short stories, and I greedily agreed, knowing it meant I would get to read them all as part of creating a good introduction. Since she has priced it very, very reasonably, I do hope you pick a copy… Read More Review: Here Be Dragons
I think a lot. Recently, it’s been about life, more than the creative writing side of my brain, because I’m still in a transitional stage. I do plan to write about 2000 words today, however, because I need to kickstart the writing side of my brain. Last night we were talking about something, and I… Read More Thinking out Loud