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Daily Prompt: Re-springing Your Step
Today’s Daily Prompt from The Daily Post reads: Tell us about the last experience you had that left you feeling fresh, energized, and rejuvenated. What was it that had such a positive effect on you? I changed out a light switch today! I realize that’s not exactly rocket surgery or brain science. It’s nowhere near… Continue reading
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If you write it . . .
One of my all-time favorite movies is Field of Dreams (1989; Academy Awards Best Picture Nominee 1990). Baseball, Iowa, James Earl Jones, Shoeless Joe, dreams, hopes, tears . . . sigh. I first watched Field of Dreams in a lecture hall my freshman year of college on dollar movie night. I remember hiding my face as I… Continue reading
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NaNo Update and The Daily Prompt
Hi Everyone! Well, I’m still chugging along with my word count for National Novel Writing Month but wanted to take some time out to post an update. My problem now seems to be that my NaNo story is going in a totally different direction than I’d planned. If “characters drive plot” then my characters are… Continue reading
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The Apocalypse Library- Guest Post by Shaunna
A couple of weeks ago, author Chuck Wendig posted his Friday writing challenge called “Roll for Your Title.” I tried to do it and failed miserably (remember the “Remote Control Hive Mind”? Ugh.) However, my friend Shaunna gave it a shot, just for fun. She doesn’t have a blog and I love her story so… Continue reading
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NaNo NaYes!
I’m going to give it a try. Fifty-thousand words in 30… scratch that… 29 days! As I drove to work yesterday thinking about whether or not to try National Novel Writing Month, I realized a couple of things: (1) I really really want to try, (2) I have two holidays in November when I can… Continue reading
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Chuck Wendig’s Flash Fiction Challenge Fail
Tonight I thought I’d try a new writing challenge. Chuck Wendig, author, screenwriter, game designer, and blogger extraordinaire, hosts a weekly writing challenge. You can find his post and his blog, “terribleminds: chuck wendig” here. This week, he provides two columns of words. The challenge is to pick a word from column one, then pick… Continue reading
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Rejected but Okay
I previously shared that Angela and I teamed up and co-wrote and submitted a screenplay to a screenplay writing competition associated with a major film festival. Well, today we got our rejection letter. It was very nice and polite–thanking and commending us and explaining that over 8,000 screenplays were submitted and the decision was difficult,… Continue reading
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Escaping Rutsville (With a Little Help from George Costanza)
Recently I wrote that I was stuck in a rut. Blogger Buddy Rachel commented that I was in “Rutsville” and that it was okay to hang out there for awhile until I could manage to get out onto the Road to Awesome again. This week I’ve made an effort to do the things that I… Continue reading
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Being Better
Tonight I’m wishing I was better. I’ve been in a rut the past few weeks and I can’t exactly figure out why. But I do know this. I wish I was better. At everything. I wish I could be a better mother. I wish I was a better employee. I wish I could be a… Continue reading
Waiting on a Word 
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