Wild Word Friday! Don’t you just love a word like CHICANERY? Just saying it out loud engenders all kinds of mischievious images. Most of the CHICANERY in mylife happened when I was a kid. My younger brother Bob was my sidekick. Actually, I was probably his sidekick. He was a lot better at CHICANERY than I was, although…
YOUR Novel! My dad has always been one of my alpha readers. He’s a speed reader. For him it’s all about story. My third draft is all about plot, and as I rewrite, I try to see what I’ve written “through my dad’s eyes.” On this rewrite, I read quickly and try to catch where my plot falls…
Wild Word Friday! We couldn’t do a post last week about the word mother without including one this week about FATHER. My FATHER is a retired teacher and an active golfer. At age 84 he still regularly shoots in the low 40s and that’s after having back surgery last year. My FATHER always made life…
Congratulations to Tracey Monette our June 2011 Book Winner! Tracey, please email me with your choice of our 2 June Free Books and your mailing address. I’ll send it to you ASAP! During July and August we’ll take a break from book give-aways. I need a couple of months to restock my “give-away” library. I’ll…
YOUR Novel! In my last post on YOUR Novel, I explained I had to take a break due to extreme parent care needs. My family is getting things more under control, and I’ve found time to write these posts. Thank you for your patience! When family situations arise, the Lord always reminds me that although my writing…
Wild Word Friday! My MOTHER is often on my mind right now. She is struggling with dementia, and, as always in matters of dementia, the whole family also struggles. My MOTHER played the piano beautifully and taught a more than a hundred students how to play. She was a church organist, a swing band pianist…
Kids and grandkids have a way of touching our hearts, deep down – and our funny bones. We recently took a short car trip with our granddaughters ages 9 and 6 and stopped at a Sam’s Club to buy groceries. Nine-year-old: Yay! We’re going to Sam’s Club. That’s my favorite store! Six-year-old: Yay! We’re going…
Wild Word Friday! HALL? Ummm, what’s wild about that? I’m not referring to HALL as in HALLway, but HALL as in the names of various German and Austrian places or towns such as HALLein, Schwaeblish HALL, and HALLstatt. You see, hal is the Celtic word for salt. During the HALLstatt Period (roughly around the 8th to…
I was having a great, motivated, write-every-day week. My husband was away on a fishing trip, and I had six hours of daylight between care-giving times for my dad-in-law. I was really going to speed into my second draft! But sometimes life happens. My dad wound up in the hospital and my mother has dementia. Suddenly…
Wild Word Friday! Last week 14-year-old Sukanya Roy won the 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee by spelling the word CYMOTRICHOUS. If you saw the video clip, you probably noticed that she had a little twinkle in her eye as she spelled the word, which I took to mean that she knew how to spell it…
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