(Collaborative story, Dock One continued from previous post) Her intuition pushed her to get out of there. Let the local law enforcement handle this. She had two days left to savor Paris. Two days to compensate for a lifetime of missed opportunities. A shame to waste it netted in a police investigation. Ignoring her instincts, […]
Collaborative Stories
In my anthology, Written Across the Genres, there are two collaborative stories. Two groups of writers wrote separate stories that began with the same paragraph. One class had 22 participants. Story Two had 10. Via emails, each person, within the maximum of a 150 words, continued the plot line from the last written entry. The […]
Do You Have a Kindle?
Do you have a Kindle? Do you like it? I have one and I order several free or $.99 special books on it. But I don’t use it unless I’m going on a trip and I don’t want to take several books with me. Every time, the battery needs charging, which shows me that I […]
Bookstores
Have you always had bookstores nearby? Were they important to you before you started to write? In the small Wisconsin town where I grew up, we had no bookstore and the time was before Amazon. I lived with my grandparents until I was ten so I had to wait for my mom or my aunt […]
Rhetorical Devices Euphony and Cacophony
The Rhetorical devices euphony and cacophony are opposites. Euphony is the use of words having pleasant and harmonious effects by using long vowels and the consonants l, m. n, r, f, v, y, th, and wh. An example of euphony is from ‘The Lotos-Eaters’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson: “The Mild-eyed melancholy lotos-eaters came.” John Keats […]
Quotes for Writers
I like to read quotes for writers at the end of the day. Some inspire, some make me laugh, and some I nod my head in agreement. “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” ―Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt “You have to write the book that wants […]
Writer Interview with Camille DeFer Thompson
Camille DeFer Thompson has an essay and a novel excerpt in my anthology, Written Across the Genres. She has stories in other collections such as Clash of the Couples, Not Your Mother’s Book On Working for a Living, Not Your Mother’s Book On Home Improvement, Encore Voices of the Valley, and several years in the […]