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Protected: Yeah Write #26: The Return (#flashfiction)

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February 15, 2016 · Enter your password to view comments.

Blog Swap #1: Writing Blog Link Party (#amwriting #writingtips)

I am adding something new to this blog.  A link exchange party! Please add your Writing Blog or your Favorite Writing Blog within the category fiction, poetry, or writing tips … Continue reading

February 13, 2016 · Leave a comment

Writes and Wrongs #5: The Spotlight Effect (#writingtips)

If you mention it, it better be important. In a rush? Just want to skip ahead ? click here. I have been participating in a writer’s forum which I have … Continue reading

February 13, 2016 · 10 Comments

Writes and Wrongs #4: Kiai! Action Tags (#writingtips)

Characters don’t just speak, they do stuff. Eager? Just want to skip ahead to the examples? click here. It can be difficult for me to punctuate dialogue correctly sometimes because … Continue reading

February 10, 2016 · 5 Comments

Writes and Wrongs #3: The Fall of Said Bookisms (#writingtips)

Unless your character is a Parseltongue, she doesn’t hiss. If you want to skip the intro-babble and get right to the examples, click here. I’m old, thus, the infamous “said-bookism” … Continue reading

February 9, 2016 · 8 Comments

Writes and Wrongs #2: Basic Dialogue Punctuation

When you teach you learn. First, I want to take a tangent.  If you don’t want to read my introduction drivel, click here. I believe in those above words.  Out … Continue reading

February 8, 2016 · 10 Comments

Yeah Write #25: Unmatched (#flashfiction)

On the left foot, a tall nylon sock styled as a buskin.  Could you make a windsock out of socks?  The right: a knee-high, rainbow-striped toe sock.   Why let meaningless … Continue reading

February 8, 2016 · 14 Comments

Protected: Yeah Write #24: Options Open (#flashfiction)

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Writes and Wrongs #1: Fun with Dialogue Punctuation (#writingtips)

I love dialogue. Sometimes I will write a  scene just so I can use a quippy exchange later. I adore how you can produce a different pace and evoke feeling … Continue reading

February 6, 2016 · 6 Comments

Protected: What’s Up Doc #13: Mindful Things — #NYCMidnight SSC Round 1 GR10

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Yeah Write #23: Poker Face (#flashfiction)

“Raise.  Organic Milk — $1.00 off — doubles on Mondays.” “Damn.  I’m out.” “Me too.” “Bullshit. Call.”  A $3.00 Kaas gourmet cheese coupon floats upon the poker pot.  A collective … Continue reading

February 3, 2016 · 6 Comments

What’s Up Doc #12: It Is Out of My Hands ( #amwriting )

The deed is done.  It is out of my hands. I have submitted my first short story to a contest for the first time in twenty years. I haven’t gotten … Continue reading

February 1, 2016 · 5 Comments

Protected: Yeah Write #22: Beauty and Beasts (#flashfiction)

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Poems Not Prose #6: Writer’s Tug of War (A Haiku – #amwritingpoetry)

 I type a story, to lose yourself in its plot. In a file, it sits.  

January 31, 2016 · 2 Comments

Yeah Write #21: The Walking Stone (#flashfiction)

    Left, Huh! Right, Hoh!  A hundred voices repeat the rhythm.  Devotees heave ropes taught.  The megalith rocks, it falls, it waddles — its 5-ton balance engineered by masons’ precision.   … Continue reading

January 27, 2016 · 5 Comments

Protected: Yeah Write #20: Pecker Bridge (#flashfiction)

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January 26, 2016 · Enter your password to view comments.

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