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Planet Pluto
Today is historic. Nasa’s New Horizon’s spacecraft, after 9 years of travel, will provide the closet views of Pluto that were not available before this day. The biggest surprises are that Pluto, like Mars, has a reddish hue, it has a heart-shape on it’s surface, and it’s larger than previously thought. New Horizons was launched […]
Romance Genre Short Story
Linda Todd wrote a short story called “A Marriage Blessed” for my anthology, Written Across the Genres.” The art shack in this photo she took is important to the protagonist, Celia. She and her husband plan to renew their marriage vows, “after the recent disastrous years” in their relationship. Celia wants to shop at the […]
Revision: A Creative Approach to Writing and Rewriting Fiction by Kaplan
A dear writer friend of mine sent me David Michael Kaplan’s book called Revision; A Creative Approach to Writing and Rewriting Fiction. On page 5, he compares writers to musicians. A cellist or bel canto singer might have talent and craft, but without endless hours of practice. . . he’ll never get to Carnegie Hall.” Writers […]
Women’s National Book Association
Women’s National Book Association Board meeting is tomorrow with a pot luck to re-energize in making decisions for our next year’s activities. I’m the secretary and still write the minutes in my own made-up shorthand from years ago. For me, it’s faster than using a laptop. We like new members so if you’re interested, go […]
Romance Short Story Excerpt
In my last post about my anthology, I gave an example of a romance novel by Sharon Svitak called Simply Irresistible. Nalini Davison’s story, “Hot and Cool” is a romance short story. Here are a few paragraphs. “He paced back and forth in front of Claire. After a few minutes, he threw his arms skyward and […]
Writing Prompt in a Quote
Today I went with three of my long time friends to meet a mutual friend at Frank Coppola’s Winery Restaurant. We had an hour and a half drive from the south and the friend from the north had about 45 minutes to get there. Heavy, dark clouds followed us and a misty rain teased the […]