Our Flash Fiction challenge this week at Terrible Minds was to use one of ten paint colours Chuck found as the title of our story, bonus credit if we make the colour the star of the story somehow. Cap was 1000 words, but I couldn’t...
Continue ReadingWhy Don’t You Finish Anything?
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I hear about it time and time again, writers who have all sorts of manuscripts started but then they stall out, get busy, and those pages sit in a file for God knows how long. Maybe until you move and finally get a chance to...
Continue ReadingWork or Play? Striving Hard and Sipping a Cold One…
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It’s always a struggle when it comes to balancing our lives. Many of us are career-driven; either we want to make as much money as we can, or we want to gain as much notoriety as possible. I think I fall into the second category,...
Continue ReadingDo You Drive It or Does It Drive You?
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Do you take the wheel in the automobile that is your writing, or is your car operating by forces other than your own, sometimes frightening you, but taking you to places you had never dreamed of? Every time I write, it never fails, my book ends...
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