Category: Welcome

This week’s post is a little late, as I woke up early to drive my sister and friend to an appointment. I was going to head to the mall and go to Barnes & Noble, but forget they opened a little later. So I was stuck strolling around the Shops at Riverside with those unique…

What do you get when you take a Facebook group of like-minded writers, a devotion to all genres punk, and an appreciation of the works of the Bard of Avalon? Sound & Fury: Shakespeare Goes Punk launches this Sunday, the Ides of March, from the somewhat anarchic Facebook collective, Writerpunk. In honor of the release, I…

In a future utopia, omni-racial men and women live in a society in which all of their basic needs are provided for, as clear and certain as clockwork. Then, one day, some of the machines break down. I wasn’t sure what to expect heading into Our Dried Voices. It began with a long chronology of…

I’m currently reading my way through the first novel in Stephen Christiansen’s epic Orbbelgguren series, which currently clocks in at 17 books with some off-shoot novels. I grew up reading multi-part series such as Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Pern novels, The Sword of Truth novels, The Riftwar Saga, The…

Here is my contribution to last week’s #WriteFridays exercise. I started and threw out a few, but finally came up with this. Based, as they say, on a “true” story. Writing Exercise 2 (Actions) When I was a kid, I had an imaginary friend. Most kids do. He was about my size and age, and…

Welcome back to #WriteFridays! Participation is easy. Check out the exercise below, then sit down and write something. Post it to your blog and share the link in the comments and/or via Twitter with hashtag “#WriteFridays.” Then, read and share others’ efforts. Good luck! Exercise 2: For this exercise, I used my Rory’s Story Cubes,…

Every once in a while, I’ll come across a book in one of my blogging groups that really catches my attention. There are different reasons for that – perhaps the cover art is particularly eye-catching, perhaps it’s a different genre than the plethora of paranormal romances currently out there. Anyway, I saw the cover art…

I started this exercise thinking that I would use it to jump start some work on Steel-Toed Blues, for which novel I still owe some words today. After staring at my computer, surfing Facebook, feeding the baby, surfing more Facebook, and trying a few words, I realized that I just wasn’t feeling it. Instead, my…