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Fiction Friday #4 – The Thing.
This week I’m entering a writing contest from Legends Undying – There Be Dragons Here. The rules are that you must write about dragons (obviously) and keep your entries under 1,200 words. This is my...
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Panic mode part 2- The Contest.
This is a follow-up to this post about my mid-life crisis. *** Okay, internet. Blame the Dayquil. Blame the crazy. Blame the searing feeling of inadequacy tearing at my insides. Yesterday I went into...
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Manuscript Mondays – The Beginning.
This is a follow up to last week’s post about the book I writing. Because apparently I have completely lost my mind. *** I have 25 days to finish the first 50 pages of my manuscript. Oh my god. Am I...
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Manuscript Mondays- Here goes nothing.
I’ve decided I’m not going to enter the March 15th contest after all. I’m not even remotely close to being ready to submit anything worth reading, and I just don’t have the time right now to catch up....
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DRIFT countdown – 10 days.
Hey internet. So I just found out yesterday about Glimmer Glass’s June Open Fiction Contest, which closes on June 30th, and I decided, yesterday, to enter the contest with a story I haven’t actually...
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DRIFT countdown – 9 days
If you’re confused, start here. *** The first person I told was my best friend and roommate, Alissa Barton. We lived together in a ramshackle apartment exactly 57 steps away from the canal, where we’d...
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DRIFT countdown – 7 days.
Confused? *** The day I moved out of the little apartment on Canal Street was relentlessly dreary. The grey sky had the consistency of a murky pond, and although it was stubbornly overcast, the heat...
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DRIFT countdown – 5 days.
Start here. *** Alissa and I curled like cats on the top deck of Connor’s well kept boat, The Lochness, each clutching a travel mug full of cheap sangria. The sunshine was devastating, and I could...
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DRIFT countdown – 4 days
Start here. *** “Marlene and I broke up,” Alissa remarked from the doorway of my room. I looked up from the book I was reading and frowned. Her voice was calm and clear, but she’d evidently been...
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DRIFT countdown – 3 days.
Hey y’all! I’m really pushing to finish this story by Sunday. It’s gonna be tight. Meanwhile, I really want to thank y’all for the MASSIVE outpouring of support I been getting during this little...
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DRIFT countdown – 2 days.
I’M NOT GONNA MAKE ITTTT *** “Look, he’s right in the back of the photo in the blue shirt,” I said my finger hovering over the glass. Alissa peered over my shoulder. “Huh,” she mused, “it totally is...
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DRIFT countdown – 1 day.
ARGHHHHHHH. *** August turned into September, which turned into a dreary October. Connor and I made his small one-person apartment on the bay into a home. We set a wedding date for early June and...
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DRIFT countdown – Conclusion?
Hey internet. If you haven’t been following along, ten days ago I decided that I was going to write a short story from scratch and submit it to a national contest. I didn’t make it, folks. Sigh....
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Fiction Friday #30 – Ode to the bird.
I took this prompt from a contest at FanStory.com. Write an ode poem about any subject. *** Ode to the bird outside my window, who sits and sings in the early morning when the light in the spring is...
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