Happy New Year to all the IWSG friends stopping by today! We are ringing in 2023 with unseasonably warm weather this week here in central Illinois. Yesterday’s high was a record-breaking 66° F (30° higher than usual, and 40° higher than this time last year). It’s going to be a little closer to normal today, […]
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Merry Everything (December IWSG)
Hello, friends! Even though I feel like I’ve been sprinting since the end of August, this fall has been a productive one. I’ve managed to keep up with my Kindle Vella story (more on that later), and I entered two contests last month (NYC Midnight’s 250-word micro-fiction challenge, and Doug Weller’s Six Word Wonder contest). […]
Continue ReadingNa-NOPE-Wri-Mo (IWSG)
Happy NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) to all my friends who are joining the challenge! I have participated in the past, but I’ve never “won” (written a first draft or 50k words in November). After a few attempts, I’ve realized that at least for this stage of life, NaNo just isn’t for me. I’m a […]
Continue ReadingSongs of the Tangled Wood is LIVE!
For the last six months, I’ve been working (very slowly) to outline and draft a collection of short horror stories to publish on Kindle Vella. Think in the vein of Stephen King’s If It Bleeds, Joe Hill’s Full Throttle, and Netflix’s Love Death & Robots: haunting stories told with (relative) brevity. Yesterday, the first four […]
Continue ReadingWelcome, October! (IWSG)
I almost missed this month’s Insecure Writer’s Support Group blog hop! Sneaking in at the last moment. Nothing like a tight deadline to get your butt in gear. September was a ridiculously full month. I wrote almost nothing over the entire 30 days. I did have a short piece (a haiku, in fact) published in […]
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